Findutils 4.1 xargs patch suggestion

[Matt Hunt]

I have a patch against the xargs included with findutils 4.1 which we find
useful here and may be of use to other people.  I'd like to submit this back
to the project if you think that it's generally applicable and of acceptable
quality.

When using the -P option to run a number of processes against a list fed to
xargs we've had trouble with the load caused by so many processes starting
at the same time.  In order to get around this we've added in a variable
wait before forking processes.  The attached patches, in unified diff format,
contain my patches to the xargs.c code and the xargs.1 man page.

Regards,

Matt.
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