[OpenAFS] access control lists

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Aug 22, 2006, at 15:37 , Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> These options are specific to the GNU versions of find and xargs,  
> respectively.  What they do is make find separate filenames it  
> outputs with NUL's rather than newlines, and make xargs expect that  
> behavior.  If you don't have GNU find and xargs, you'll have to  
> either hope that you don't have any filenames containing  
> whitespace, or use one of the other tools mentioned.

Not entirely true:  FreeBSD's implementations of find and xargs,  
which are not from GNU, have these options.  I think this is also  
true of NetBSD.

> Actually, you should be able to punt this entirely.  Without this  
> switch, xargs will use as many parameters as it can fit, given the  
> system's limits on the number of arguments and their total size.

...unless it's an old unix vendor's xargs (hello, Sun!), which will  
clamp at 512 arguments and/or 512 (or if you're lucky, 5120) bytes  
per command line because nobody ever modified them to realize they're  
not on 7th research edition any more.

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