svn commit: r270510 - head

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 25 19:39:44 UTC 2014


On Monday, August 25, 2014 01:35:21 PM Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 8/25/2014 12:36 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org
> > 
> > <mailto:glebius at freebsd.org>> wrote:
> >     And carrying this stuff costs us almost nothing.
> > 
> > The cost of having it in the tree is small, yes.  But the runtime cost
> > when people actually run delete-old will only keep increasing ... it
> > already feels kind of slow, to me.
> > 
> > -Ben
> 
> This could be fixed by not calling rm(1) for every file but instead
> using xargs rm so it is called only a few times, when not needing -i.
> The same goes for the chflags and -f/-L tests. It would be much more
> manageable if all of the logic moved into a shell script.

rm -i foo bar still prompts individually for each file, so presumably you 
could always use 'xargs | rm'?

-- 
John Baldwin


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