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xargs: disallow -R0 and -L0
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Authored by des on Jul 13 2023, 7:59 PM.
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rG1048a870e3b6: xargs: disallow -R0 and -L0
Summary

Both cases were interpreted as these flags are unset. This meant that
-R0 got converted to -R5 and that -L0 didn't have any effect at all.
Since make at most 0 replacements isn't useful and since call utility
for every 0 lines read doesn't make sense, throw an error for these
two cases.

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