cvs commit: src/etc/periodic/security 100.chksetuid

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2008.02.02 14:53:21 +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 12:27:38PM +0000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > des         2008-02-02 12:27:38 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     etc/periodic/security 100.chksetuid 
> >   Log:
> >   Rewrite to consume significantly less memory, by using find -s instead of
> >   find | sort.  As a bonus, this simplifies the logic considerably.  Also
> >   remove the bogus "overruning the args to ls" comment and the corresponding
> >   "-n 20" argument to xargs; the whole point with xargs is precisely that it
> >   knows how large the argument list can safely get.
> 
> Why use xargs at all?  The "-exec ls -liTd {} +" primary would do the
> same thing.

You would end up executing ls a lot more times with the extra overhead
for fork() etc. per file.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen