[procps] Re: [PATCH v2] sysctl: restore old -p handling
- From: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx>
- To: procps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 17:24:22 +0200
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Craig Small <csmall-procps@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hating glibc because of optional arguments is probably fair.
>
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html#tag_12_02
>
> 'Guideline 7:
> Option-arguments should not be optional.'
>
> And the same is in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 which the glibc getopt()
> claims to be compliant with.
>
> I wonder if the sysctl -p should not take optional argument,
> but let the command arguments to deal the files. Comments?
The related change could look something like this
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