Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH] bug 20273

[James Youngman]

On 6/27/07, Eric Blake-1 <address@hidden> wrote:
> OK to apply?

Yes.

> The bulk of the patch is a new test in the testsuite,
> which required some tweaks to get xargs_start to run a subshell
> with multiple commands, rather than just xargs.  I then validated
> that the new test fails prior to the xargs.c changes and passes
> afterwards on the Linux machine where I originally reported the bug.

Thanks!

> Should I use the name savannah-20273, or sv-bug-20273 (both
> naming formats are in use in the xargs testsuite)?

I think I normally use the latter, but it's not a big deal.

> Since this is a bug fix, is it worth backporting this to the
> 4.2 branch?

Yes, I think it's worthwhile.

James.