portability touch-up (and ~15k size-savings)

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 25 May 2006 4:13 pm, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> Not sure about the details (i.e. what *is* 'the reordering'? Never
> bothered to actually look ;) but aren't most of the applets relying on
> arbitrary ordering of the args?

watch, xargs, nohup...

Lots of things run a second command, and have arguments.  Any arguments before 
the name of the command they transfer control to attach to them, and 
arguments after that command name are for the new command.  Permuting screws 
this up royally.

Rob
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