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Re: GNU enhancement -- $(xargs cmd, list)


From: Reid Madsen
Subject: Re: GNU enhancement -- $(xargs cmd, list)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:56:30 -0600 (CST)

 > Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:45:45 -0500
 > From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
 > 
 > %% Reid Madsen <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 >   >> Also, it might be a Good Thing to try to integrate the temporary file
 >   >> with the ^C handling in GNU make so that the temp file was removed even
 >   >> if the user used ^C.  And, any creation of temp files needs to be
 >   >> hardened to avoid DOS, etc. attacks.
 > 
 >   rm> I thought of this too.  If you give me some pointers, I'll try to
 >   rm> prototype it.
 > 
 > For the latter, there's an open_tmpfile() function in main.c which
 > should do what you want; hopefully the interface is sufficient (see its
 > use in main.c as well).
 > 
 > For the former, I don't have any brainstorms; the "current" temp file
 > names will just have to be kept somewhere, I guess.

Okay, I'll prototype with the 'open_tmpfile()' function.

I also thought about using the _POSIX_ARG_MAX and ARG_MAX symbols to determine
when the xargs approach was really needed.  If the command line is within
limits, then

        $(xargs cmd, list)

would expand to:

        cmd list

Do you believe this is doable/portable?

Reid


FYI, a quick perusal of our systems shows:

        POSIX_ARG_MAX   ARG_MAX
        -------------   -------
Solaris         4096    1MB
HP              4096    2MB
AIX             4096    24576   Pathetic!
OSF             4096    38912   Pathetic!
NT              4096    14500   Pathetic ** 2 !

Gotta love those 2-4 byte per arg limits on AIX, OSF, and NT.

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