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: Thu, 30 May 2002 11:19:56 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: trivial mkpasswd defect Message-ID: <20020530151956.GD32609@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:19:18AM -0400, Bernard A Badger wrote: >In this (POSIX) example, >http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/getopt.html >-? (or some other error such as -a and -b together) was the only way >to generate the usage string. The GNU standard is a bit more friendly, >requiring a consistent error-free way to generate usage. > >Using --help (GNU required) or -h (AFAICS optional) should be considered >successful, and should return 0. Have you actually tried the latest version of the cygwin utilities? The cygwin snapshots contain the very latest version of things like 'mount'. Joshua Daniel Franklin has expended considerable effort in regularizing the output of the commands wrt --help and usage output. cgf -- Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions. Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ . -- 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/