Some more polish to make xargs act like GNU xargs (thanks to kent robotti

<robotti@metconnect.com> for testing and pointing out the differences)
 -Erik

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/findutils/xargs.c b/findutils/xargs.c
index 4a3fe3c60..beada7a15 100644
--- a/findutils/xargs.c
+++ b/findutils/xargs.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ int xargs_main(int argc, char **argv)
         char *args = NULL;
         char *cmd_to_be_executed = NULL;
         char traceflag = 0;
-        int len_args=10, len_cmd_to_be_executed, opt;
+        int len_args=2, len_cmd_to_be_executed, opt;
         pid_t pid;
         int wpid, status;
 
@@ -69,9 +69,11 @@ int xargs_main(int argc, char **argv)
                 strcat(cmd_to_be_executed, *argv);
         }
 
+        args=xrealloc(args, len_args);
+        strcpy(args, " ");
 
-        /* Now, read in one line at a time from stdin, and stroe this to be used later 
-         * as an argument to the command we just stored */
+        /* Now, read in one line at a time from stdin, and store this 
+         * line to be used later as an argument to the command */
         in_from_stdin = get_line_from_file(stdin);
         for (;in_from_stdin!=NULL;) {
                 char *tmp;
@@ -111,8 +113,7 @@ int xargs_main(int argc, char **argv)
         }
 
         if (traceflag==1) {
-                fputs(cmd_to_be_executed, stderr);
-                fputs(args, stderr);
+                fprintf(stderr, "%s%s\n", cmd_to_be_executed, args);
         }
 
         if ((pid = fork()) == 0) {