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Date:      Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:46:42 -0600
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.1 xargs.c
Message-ID:  <20030226164641.A2816@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200302262244.h1QMiW77020132@repoman.freebsd.org>; from jmallett@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:44:32PM -0800
References:  <200302262244.h1QMiW77020132@repoman.freebsd.org>

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* De: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> [ Data: 2003-02-26 ]
	[ Subjecte: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.1 xargs.c ]
> jmallett    2003/02/26 14:44:32 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     usr.bin/xargs        xargs.1 xargs.c 
>   Log:
>   Extend our -R extension which sets the number of arguments in which -I will
>   replace to support magic values less than zero, which mean to just go nuts
>   and expand as many as we want.

I will not let the temptation to add a facility to do what -R does to
the 255-byte limit of the grown string size get to me.  Too much potential
to shoot off someone's foot.  I won't do it.  Honest.
-- 
Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> - AIM: BSDFlata -- IRC: juli on EFnet
OpenDarwin, Mono, FreeBSD Developer - ircd-hybrid Developer, EFnet addict
FreeBSD on MIPS-Anything on FreeBSD - Never trust an ELF, COFF or Mach-O!

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