From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 8 10:10:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA16314 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:10:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA16298 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:10:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa1024312; 8 Nov 97 18:01 GMT Received: (from fhackers@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA15554; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 17:58:35 GMT (envelope-from fhackers) Message-ID: <19971108175832.31362@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 17:58:32 +0000 From: James Raynard To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why doesn't /bin/echo use getopt? References: <25358.879002601@axl.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <25358.879002601@axl.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Sat, Nov 08, 1997 at 05:23:21PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Nov 08, 1997 at 05:23:21PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Trivial question: why doesn't src/bin/echo/echo.c use getopt? > > echo.c: /* This utility may NOT do getopt(3) option parsing. */ Because it's supposed to repeat its arguments instead of parse them? (with the exception of -n, of course). -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland. james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/