From 7c71d71894ca896e2718a24b51b39b0e5f9c27e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Mustacchi Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 22:00:11 +0000 Subject: 10216 xargs does not properly detect when -P is negative Reviewed by: Patrick Mooney Reviewed by: Jason King Reviewed by: Andy Fiddaman Reviewed by: Andy Stormont Reviewed by: Peter Tribble Approved by: Dan McDonald --- usr/src/man/man1/xargs.1 | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'usr/src/man') diff --git a/usr/src/man/man1/xargs.1 b/usr/src/man/man1/xargs.1 index 2647192818..42e8ea4959 100644 --- a/usr/src/man/man1/xargs.1 +++ b/usr/src/man/man1/xargs.1 @@ -43,8 +43,9 @@ .\" 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 .sp -- cgit v1.2.3