> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Christoph Badura wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:34:56PM +, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > > Modified Files:
> > > src/usr.bin/pathchk: pathchk.1
> > >
> > > Log Message:
> > > Change the ironically unafe "find . -print | xargs pathchk -p" to
> > > the safe "find . -ex
In article <20101110182232.ga19...@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>,
David Laight wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:34:44PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
>>
>> "-exec ... +" and "xargs" will both accumulate many args into each
>> invocation of the child program, and will both fork the same number of
>> times.
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, David Holland wrote:
> > Yes, I did not know about exec {} +
>
> Neither did I; when was it invented? Did the POSIX folks come up with
> something good for a change?
I don't know when it was invented, but it's in The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 6, a.k.a. IEEE Std 10
David Laight writes:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:19:25PM +, David Holland wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:34:02PM +, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> > >Christos seems to have made the same mistake as you, confusing "-exec
>> > >... \;" (which runs a separate child program for each file
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:19:25PM +, David Holland wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:34:02PM +, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > >Christos seems to have made the same mistake as you, confusing "-exec
> > >... \;" (which runs a separate child program for each file name) with
> > >"-exec ...
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:34:02PM +, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >Christos seems to have made the same mistake as you, confusing "-exec
> >... \;" (which runs a separate child program for each file name) with
> >"-exec ... +" (which passes many file names to each invocation of the
> >child pr
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:34:44PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
>
> "-exec ... +" and "xargs" will both accumulate many args into each
> invocation of the child program, and will both fork the same number of
> times. The version using xargs is actually less efficient, because
> there's one extra fo
In article <20101110113444.ge...@apb-laptoy.apb.alt.za>,
Alan Barrett wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Christoph Badura wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:34:56PM +, Alan Barrett wrote:
>> > Modified Files:
>> >src/usr.bin/pathchk: pathchk.1
>> >
>> > Log Message:
>> > Change the ironicall
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Christoph Badura wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:34:56PM +, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > Modified Files:
> > src/usr.bin/pathchk: pathchk.1
> >
> > Log Message:
> > Change the ironically unafe "find . -print | xargs pathchk -p" to
> > the safe "find . -exec pathchk -p \
