cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.c

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Fri Jun 13 09:21:10 PDT 2003


At 12:53 AM -0700 6/13/03, David Schultz wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 13, 2003, Juli Mallett wrote:
>>  jmallett    2003/06/13 00:37:45 PDT
>>
>>    FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>    Modified files:
>>      usr.bin/xargs        xargs.c
>>    Log:
>>    Use waitpid, instead of wait3, which is more portable.
>
>Just out of curiosity, why do we care about the portability
>of our own userland utilities to someone else's kernel that
>doesn't support wait3()?

So I can steal the code, and recompile it on other OS's, and
thus have the -J option available on all the machines I use!
(that idea didn't actually occur to me until just this minute,
but it is something that I'm probably going to do now that I
thought of it...)

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


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