tcsh being dodgy, or pipe code ishoos?

[Tim J. Robbins]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:41:51AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

[...]
> So, now the question is, do we fix xargs to deal with unexpected
> children?  Or fix the shells in question?  (tcsh and zsh seem to suffer
> this problem)
> 
> To me, fixing xargs is correct since it prevents another possible
> future abusers of this "feature".

Feel free to get rid of the -P option. What tcsh and zsh are doing is a fairly
bad idea though, and it will break more than just xargs.


Tim