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

[Juli Mallett]

* Garance A Drosihn <drosih at rpi.edu> [ Date: 2003-06-13 ]
	[ w.r.t. Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.c ]
> 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...)

I have a 'julikit' here, stuff to make a computer useful.  Sort
of a mini-ports tarball I carry around.  Among other things, it
installs our xargs.  I think there may be a bug or two on linux,
but probably not.
-- 
juli mallett. email: jmallett at freebsd.org; efnet: juli;