OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc completeness

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2012-Jun-01 20:50:24 +0200, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>Why is xargs even calling /bin/echo when "utility" is not specified.

Because that's what it's documented as doing.

>Shouldn't it just print a certain number of arguments (one in this
>case)?

The current approach is simpler - there's always "utility" and it
defaults to "/bin/echo".  Therefore xargs can just always fork/exec.
I agree that special-casing the default to have xargs print the
relevant number of arguments would be more efficient.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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