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Raven Scott 346bb71ffe Complete the internal “100 task” roadmap: coreutils and shell parity (xargs,
sh, diff/patch, sort, printf, find, test, getfacl/setfacl/xattr), expanded
/proc and metrics (process table, syscalls, replication, net, security
posture, worker budget, swarm/replication hints), initd DAG supervision
metadata and richer restart journal telemetry, synthetic process groups via
IPC (assignProcessGroup/signalProcessGroup) mirrored into process_table,
optional kernel.ext.d incremental hot reload (BARE_OS_KERNEL_EXT_D_HOT_RELOAD)
with reload audit NDJSON, features proc for hyperblobs dedup and systemd
subset documentation, vault threat model doc plus posture fields for AEAD,
Pear enclave pointer, account rotation continuity, and Ed25519 consistency
across boot manifest / extensions / replication. Adds or extends tests and
keeps kernel/ and packages/bare-os-seeder/kernel/ in parity; guest init is
bundled from kernel/lib/init/init-main.js via bundle-kernel-init.
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{
"name": "xargs",
"section": 1,
"title": "construct argument lists and invoke utility",
"synopsis": [
"xargs [OPTION]... [OPERAND]..."
],
"description": "Reads stdin into argument batches and runs **`ctx.runBinCommand`** (same as the shell). Enforces stdin size, token count, batch size, and invocation limits for safety. Parallel **`-P`** runs disjoint batches concurrently using shallow ctx clones so **`exitCode`** does not race.",
"options": [
{
"flag": "-0, --null",
"meaning": "Input items are null-terminated, not whitespace-separated"
},
{
"flag": "-n, --max-args",
"meaning": "Up to N arguments per utility invocation (capped at 128)"
},
{
"flag": "-I repl",
"meaning": "Replace repl in the utility argv; implies **`-n 1`** unless **`-n`** was set"
},
{
"flag": "-P, --max-procs",
"meaning": "Run up to N batches in parallel (capped by **`BARE_OS_XARGS_MAX_PROCS`**, max 32; default 8)"
}
],
"keywords": [
"xargs",
"bare-os",
"coreutils"
],
"bareOsNotes": "No host process spawn; not full POSIX xargs. See **`src/xargs.js`** for limits. POSIX coverage: **`/etc/bare-os/posix_utilities.json`** (utilities.xargs).",
"examples": [
{
"caption": "pass lines as arguments",
"code": "printf 'a\\nb\\n' | xargs echo"
},
{
"caption": "one argument per run",
"code": "printf 'a\\nb\\n' | xargs -n1 echo"
},
{
"caption": "two parallel batches (when safe for the utility)",
"code": "printf 'a\\nb\\n' | xargs -P2 -n1 echo"
},
{
"caption": "workaround for complex scripts",
"code": "# for f in *.txt; do grep -l foo $f; done"
}
]
}