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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: New getopt.c has different behavior -- should it?
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:24:36 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 10:19 AM
Subject: New getopt.c has different behavior -- should it?


> The new getopt.c that I just added to winsup/cygwin/lib exhibts
different,
> more GNU-like behavior when it parses arguments.
>
...
> So, the question is, which way *should* it be?  I'm inclined to leave
> it the way it is, since it seems to be more gnu-like but I don't
> want to cause people problems or generate unnecessary cygwin email
> traffic.

This is one of the GNUism's that I'm very neutral on. As for the mailing
list, I think we can count on one hand - in unary - the number of folk
that aren't on the dev list, that run strace. So I don't think there
will be much traffic :}. (That is, as long as we update the FAQ, the
users guide and note in the release notes this change).

Rob