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Index: usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1
===================================================================
--- usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1
+++ usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\" $xMach: xargs.1,v 1.2 2002/02/23 05:23:37 tim Exp $
.\"
-.Dd March 16, 2012
+.Dd May 21, 2015
.Dt XARGS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -207,6 +207,11 @@
invocations of
.Ar utility
at once.
+If
+.Ar maxprocs
+is negative or 0,
+.Nm
+will run as many processes as possible at a time.
.It Fl p
Echo each command to be executed and ask the user whether it should be
executed.
Index: usr.bin/xargs/xargs.c
===================================================================
--- usr.bin/xargs/xargs.c
+++ usr.bin/xargs/xargs.c
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@
#include "pathnames.h"
+#define BASE_DECIMAL 10
+
static void parse_input(int, char *[]);
static void prerun(int, char *[]);
static int prompt(void);
@@ -159,8 +161,13 @@
oflag = 1;
break;
case 'P':
- if ((maxprocs = atoi(optarg)) <= 0)
- errx(1, "max. processes must be >0");
+ maxprocs = strtol(optarg, &endptr, BASE_DECIMAL);
+ if (*endptr != '\0')
+ errx(1, "max processes must be a number");
+ if (maxprocs > nargs)
+ errx(1, "max processes must be %d or less", nargs);
+ if (maxprocs < 1)
+ maxprocs = nargs;
break;
case 'p':
pflag = 1;

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