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.\" Copyright 1989 AT&T
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, X/Open Company Limited. All Rights Reserved.
.\" Portions Copyright (c) 2007, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+.\" Copyright (c) 2018, Joyent, Inc.
.\"
-.TH XARGS 1 "May 28, 2017"
+.TH XARGS 1 "September 13, 2018"
.SH NAME
xargs \- construct argument lists and invoke utility
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -211,7 +212,9 @@ otherwise, that particular invocation of \fIutility\fR is skipped.
.ad
.RS 15n
Invokes \fIutility\fR using at most \fImaxprocs\fR (a positive decimal integer)
-parallel child processes.
+parallel child processes. If \fImaxprocs\fR is zero, then the system
+will set a large upper bound to try and run as many processes as
+possible.
.RE
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