[procps] Re: [PATCH v2] sysctl: restore old -p handling
- From: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx>
- To: procps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 21:07:36 +0200
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 04 May 2012 11:24:22 Sami Kerola wrote:
>> The optional argument syntax is simply causing confusion, and is
>> not POSIX compliant way of using getopt(3).
>
> you're using getopt_long(), not getopt(), so what POSIX has to say really
> doesn't matter.
That's just sneaky. One could expect _long to mean --options but not
change of behaviour of short options. But point taken,
DifferentFunction() is different_funtion().
IMHO avoiding optional options still makes sense. Syntax of the
optional arguments is exactly different than the required argument,
which obviously is cause of confusion and therefore intolerable.
--
Sami Kerola
http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/
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