On 29/10/10 23:58, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 10/29/10 15:47, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> I think we should as in the unlikely case one >> is debugging with a file starting with +, >> then one can/should protect it with -- > > Yes, definitely. More generally, how about if > --debug warns whenever any file name > begins with "+" (unless the file name is > protected with --)? This is because they changed > POSIX in the 2008 edition to say that > "sort" is allowed to use "+" to delimit > options. For example, "sort --debug +foo" > should generate a warning, even > if the file "+foo" exists, because "sort +foo" > is not portable to other POSIX-2008 "sort"s. > But "sort --debug -- +foo" should be OK > if "+foo" exists.
Definitely a far out edge case, but simple to do so we should. cheers, Pádraig.
