* Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081113 03:04]:
> Christian Kellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Wed Nov 12 15:59:10 CET 2008  Christian Kellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >   * make finds more portable
> >
> >   This patch changes the way find -exec is used before. OpenBSD
> >   requires a trailing ';' for work whereas Mac OS X does not like
> >   that. The solution I choose is to remove the -exec part and replace
> >   it with xargs.
> 
> "-exec {} +" is distinct from "-exec {} \;".  Both are part of POSIX[0].
> Are you saying the former is not understood by OpenBSD?

No, that came out wrong. What I am saying is that OpenBSD needs the
\;. The line should read -exec {} + \; And MacOS X complained about
that.
 
> If that's the case, I would prefer to simply use the latter than to use
> xargs, because to use xargs safely it is necessary to do the -print0 |
> xargs -0 dance, and IMO that looks ugly, and in this case we would only
> save at most a couple of hundred forks.

agreed.

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