On 1/18/19 6:55 PM, enh via Toybox wrote: > Implement -p, -t, and -r. > > Add some missing tests. > > Move -L and -x back to TODO since they're not implemented and I haven't > yet even understood what they're supposed to do.
FYI my todo list has an xargs section with a reference to this email (sadly, this one is in one of the dreamhost archive holes; I should try to put together some mbox files to send them to fill that back in): On 12/21/14 6:41 PM, Rich Felker wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 01:07:02PM -0800, James McMechan wrote: >> I am would suggest something like GNU_QUIRKS and POSIX_QUIRKS config >> symbols to add in the odd features like gnu sed directly disagreeing >> with POSIX or POSIX's umm interesting xargs without -0 quoting >> conventions and any other "why did they do it that way" I know POSIX > > There is nothing unusual or quirky about the way xargs without -0 > works. It's the way it's always been on all historical systems, and > it's the only way xargs can actually process arbitrary lists of > filenames. Mistakenly treating the input as a newline-delimited list > of literals rather than a whitespace-delimited list of shell-quoted > strings is a toybox quirk that's a bug and just needs to be fixed. > > Rich And of course, you remember the email thread with Linus about the max environment size changing in diferent kernel vesions but not having a probe API. (I shouldla submitted a patch to add a /sys/kernel/mm/envmax file...) Rob. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
