Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:18:52 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: Tim Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/35201: link and unlink are not SUSv2-compliant as the manpage states Message-ID: <54382.1014387532@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Feb 2002 06:10:01 PST." <200202221410.g1MEA1A91852@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 06:10:01 PST, Tim Robbins wrote: > I've adjusted the patches to rm and ln to use getopt instead of doing it > themselves. I was hesitant in doing that at first because it breaks > "unlink -foo", but P1003.2-1992 says: > "Applications calling any utility with a first operand starting with "-" > should usually specify "--", as indicated by Guideline 10, to mark the > end of the options. This is true even if the Synopsis in this standard > does not specify any options; implementations may provide options as > extensions to this standard." > ... and I'm not sure anyone really uses link/unlink, anyway. Argh! The whole point of these alternatives to ln/rm is that they have a simple, optionless interface. :-( Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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