Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:42:39 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: trivial mkpasswd defect To: Bernard A Badger , cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: In-Reply-To: Reply-To: Michael A Chase Message-Id: On Wed, 29 May 2002 15:33:19 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) Michael A Chase wrote: > I don't see anything there that says that POSIX endorses '-?' for > displaying the usage message. It just shows how to handle invalid option > characters. If getopt sees an invalid character after '-' it returns '?' and puts the > invalid character ("?" in your example) in optopt. In that example, I'd > expect to see . . . I should have been explicit about one item. Asking for help shouldn't be an error. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/