Re: Fwd: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH 1/3] xargs: patch for varying parallelism

[Jim Meyering]

James Youngman wrote:
> I've just pushed this patch to the public repository (with the date of
> the ChangeLog entry updated and, obviously, having ported the change
> to the current tree).
>
> I'd like to thank John for the contribution and being patient, and
> Sven for testing the change - and reminding me.
>
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:30 PM, James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: John Gilmore <address@hidden>
...
>> +** Functional enhancements to xargs
>> +
>> +You can now increase the parallelism of xargs in mid-run by sending
>> +it SIGUSR1, and decrease the parallelism with SIGUSR2.

Nice change!
A good reason to use xargs for even more tasks.