Some more polish to make xargs act like GNU xargs (thanks to kent robotti
<robotti@metconnect.com> for testing and pointing out the differences)
-Erik
diff --git a/xargs.c b/xargs.c
index 4a3fe3c..beada7a 100644
--- a/xargs.c
+++ b/xargs.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
char *args = NULL;
char *cmd_to_be_executed = NULL;
char traceflag = 0;
- int len_args=10, len_cmd_to_be_executed, opt;
+ int len_args=2, len_cmd_to_be_executed, opt;
pid_t pid;
int wpid, status;
@@ -69,9 +69,11 @@
strcat(cmd_to_be_executed, *argv);
}
+ args=xrealloc(args, len_args);
+ strcpy(args, " ");
- /* Now, read in one line at a time from stdin, and stroe this to be used later
- * as an argument to the command we just stored */
+ /* Now, read in one line at a time from stdin, and store this
+ * line to be used later as an argument to the command */
in_from_stdin = get_line_from_file(stdin);
for (;in_from_stdin!=NULL;) {
char *tmp;
@@ -111,8 +113,7 @@
}
if (traceflag==1) {
- fputs(cmd_to_be_executed, stderr);
- fputs(args, stderr);
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s%s\n", cmd_to_be_executed, args);
}
if ((pid = fork()) == 0) {