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From: "Kai Tischler" <kai@kaitischler.de>
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Subject: xargs: Broken in version 1.7.28; works in legacy version 1.7.7-1
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:48:30 +0100
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My OS: Win XP Pro SP3
My XEmacs: 21.4.19

My original problem:
- I had upgraded to the latest CygWin version 1.7.28
- XEmacs hangs at startup; because an xargs process hangs
- Furthermore, xargs does not seem to work properly in the shell

At first I thought that XEmacs shouldn't invoke an xargs process at all at startup; but investigation showed: An xargs process IS invoked at XEmacs startup for ages ... So something had to be probably "im Argen (wrong)" with the latest xargs version.

I then went back in time using the CygWin Time Machine; and installed the legacy version 1.7.7-1; and voila: Everything xargs-related seems to run like a charm again.

My conclusion is: Somewhere between the legacy version 1.7.7-1 and the latest version 1.7.28, the behaviour of xargs has changed for the worse.

Some further remark: I have gone back to the legacy version 1.7.7-1 by chance; of course I cannot try out each and every legacy version before the latest.


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