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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Patrick Eisenacher" <eisenacher AT fillmore-labs DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: getopt & output reordering
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:38:29 +0100
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Patrick Eisenacher wrote:
> Hi Max,
>
> thanks for your quick response. Indeed, setting the
> POSIXLY_INCORRECT_GETOPT environment variable did the trick and produces
> a result that is in synch with the man page.
>
> Since I don't know anything about the various flavours of getopts around
> and what is posixly correct and what not, and I guess a lot of other
> users don't know neither, how about updating the man pages to be in
> synch with the current behaviour and adding a paragraph on the
> POSIXLY_INCORRECT_GETOPT stuff?

PTC.

Given this:
>> ... because getopt is statically linked, this only works for
>> programs rebuilt since this change was made, and many haven't been yet.
such a patch is unlikely to be commited until after 1.5 has been released,
as most stuff will have been recompiled by then.


Max.


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