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

[Hartmut Brandt]

Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> 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.
> 

I think "-exec ... {} +" collects as much arguments before executing 
just as xargs does. This is different from "-exec ... {} ;" which execs 
for each argument.

harti