From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Oct 17 20:35:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 6020A37B401; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:35:55 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Garance A Drosehn , jmallet@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/44070: Minor corrections to release notes for 4.7 Message-ID: <20021017203555.A17494@FreeBSD.org> References: <11597FB5-E0A7-11D6-96E6-00306576693E@rpi.edu> <200210180319.g9I3JPl6058057@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200210180319.g9I3JPl6058057@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@freebsd.org on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:19:25PM -0700 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * De: "Bruce A. Mah" [ Data: 2002-10-17 ] [ Subjecte: Re: docs/44070: Minor corrections to release notes for 4.7 ] > > I do think it would be good to have an errata item on xargs, lest people > > think they have to start avoiding -J. Probably should check with > > jmallet just to make sure we're all still on the same wavelength on that. > > OK, let's ask her, then. Juli, any comment on "xargs -J"? It's certainly not deprecated. I've even had extensive discussion with gad about its implementation, along the lines of making sure that it is not implemented inappropriately complexly against the way -I and such are implemented. The semantics are different enough in a desirable way to be interesting. juli. -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message