[procps] Re: [PATCH v2] sysctl: restore old -p handling
- From: Craig Small <csmall-procps@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: procps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 10:29:28 +1000
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 10:11:05PM +0200, Sami Kerola wrote:
> I would love to get rid of that, but it is not that easy. Behaviour of
> optional argument is determined by getopts_long implementation, or to
> say in other words glibc.
This is my #1 thing I hate about glibc. Non-optional argument is
-p foo but optional has to be -pfoo. When I first saw this I thought it
was typical PHP brokenness but its not (for once) its glibc brokeness.
Anyone else getting duplicate emails?
- Craig
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