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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 09:14:28 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: New getopt.c has different behavior -- should it?
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On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 03:24:36PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>----- 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).

I'm not worried about strace.  I was just using that as an example.
Any application that uses getopt is potentially affected.

cgf