Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/pathchk

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:19:25PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:34:02PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>  > >Christos seems to have made the same mistake as you, confusing "-exec
>  > >... \;" (which runs a separate child program for each file name) with
>  > >"-exec ... +" (which passes many file names to each invocation of the
>  > >child program).
>  > 
>  > Yes, I did not know about exec {} +
> 
> Neither did I; when was it invented? Did the POSIX folks come up with
> something good for a change?

Ditto - which probably means it is less portable that -print0 :-)

        David

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