Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: remove sed command from cmd_ar_builtin

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 3:59 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:53 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Replace a pipeline of echo and sed with printf to decrease process forks.
>
> If you're trying to minimize process forks, is it possible to remove
> the use of xargs as well and just invoke $(AR) with the parameters
> splatted out? I don't know myself, but maybe you're creative enough?


If I remove xargs, we will go back to the situation
before cd968b97c49214e6557381bddddacbd0e0fb696e.

This patch tries to avoid "too long argument error"
without forking too many processes.
Maybe I am too worried about the potential issue, though...






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Masahiro Yamada