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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:00:04 +0000
From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: patch for review: xargs standards compliance
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 07:26:29PM +1100, Tim J. Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:11:00PM +0000, J. Mallett wrote:
> 
> > In detail, it adds: -E, -I, -L, -t; As far as flags go.
> > 
> > I'm looking to commit this after the weekend, so review would be 
> > appreciated, comments and flames welcome...  Three days sound good?
> 
> Check that the way -I handles empty strings (xargs -I "") is what you
> intend. Solaris checks that the argument is not empty:
> xargs: Must specify subargment for -I

Solaris not recognising that '' and "" are arguments is probably a 
difference in getopt implementations?  We don't check for -J, should I 
really try to check for -I?

I'm happy to, I just don't know if this is standard practice, and so on.

Thanks

	/j.

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