def METHOD_NAME(
        cmd: tuple[str, ...],
        file_args: Sequence[str],
        *,
        require_serial: bool,
        color: bool,
) -> tuple[int, bytes]:
    if require_serial:
        jobs = 1
    else:
        # Shuffle the files so that they more evenly fill out the xargs
        # partitions, but do it deterministically in case a hook cares about
        # ordering.
        file_args = _shuffled(file_args)
        jobs = target_concurrency()
    return xargs.xargs(cmd, file_args, target_concurrency=jobs, color=color)