[BusyBox] xargs patch again

Glenn McGrath bug1 at iinet.net.au
Tue Jan 20 14:06:37 UTC 2004


A bit offtopic, but speaking about xargs generally, I think GNU xargs is
a mess, its an extension to old POSIX standard.

See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/xargs.html
Issue 6
    The obsolescent -e, -i, and -l options are removed.

GNU xargs still supports these arguments, also -E should be used which
GNU xargs doesnt support.

I think busybox should primarily support latest POSIX arguments, and
only support GNU behaviour where it is compatable with the latest POSIX
standard.



Glenn



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