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Re: Patch for generic-build-script


On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:41:03PM -0400, Robb, Sam wrote:
> > It was actually right there on the xargs man page... ;-)  Ok, so
> > it's settled -- I'll change your patch to do that instead of the
> > -exec option.
> 
> Just curious - is there a reason to prefer xargs vs. -exec?  I know
> that xargs can be used to avoid shell command line length limits, but
> are there other advantages? 

Speed -- xargs minimizes the number of fork/exec calls.

Jason

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