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Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint.mk: Split long argument lists
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint.mk: Split long argument lists |
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Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:29:48 +0100 |
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Hi Roman,
> May I ask you to review what way we should go with ARG_MAX?
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> I'm okay with both ways whether it's:
> * computing effective argument length and passing it to "-s" option;
> * or exploiting behaviour of GNU/BSD xargs and specifying "-n" beyond
> the limit.
Use the approach that makes the least undocumented assumptions. In other
words, rely on what the documentation says and on nothing else. The
relevant documentation here is POSIX [1].
Bruno
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/xargs.html