tcsh being dodgy, or pipe code ishoos?

[John-Mark Gurney]

Tim J. Robbins wrote this message on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 19:20 +1000:
> 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.

I think -P for xargs is a GOOD option.  There are cases that this is
very useful.  It is pretty trivial to fix too.

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