Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If long options are present, then people will use them and if people use them, > they are not POSIX compliant anymore.
Who or what is "not POSIX compliant"? The people? :-) But even if you are talking about scripts, this is not correct. A script that invokes a utility using a long option can very well be a "conforming POSIX application using extensions" if the non-standard requirement is documented. Long options are usually consistent extensions because they cannot occur in the standard itself; their occurrence in implementations is only discouraged, but not prohibited by the standard. I personally rather dislike long options too. But again, it is not acceptable to misrepresent the standard. Gunnar _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org