New flag option request

2011-10-20 Thread Bruce Korb
You may have this in the queue already, but just in case: POSIX now specifies that if a standard utility has extended options, then you accomplish it with ``-W option-name[=opt-arg]''. I wouldn't care, but I wanted to add ``--noprofile --norc'' to the command line and, for debugging purposes, I

Re: New flag option request

2011-10-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/20/2011 08:48 AM, Bruce Korb wrote: You may have this in the queue already, but just in case: POSIX now specifies that if a standard utility has extended options, then you accomplish it with ``-W option-name[=opt-arg]''. Not quite. POSIX specifies only that -W is reserved for

Re: New flag option request

2011-10-20 Thread Chet Ramey
On 10/20/11 10:48 AM, Bruce Korb wrote: You may have this in the queue already, but just in case: POSIX now specifies that if a standard utility has extended options, then you accomplish it with ``-W option-name[=opt-arg]''. That's not actually published anywhere. Where's the specification?

Re: New flag option request

2011-10-20 Thread Bruce Korb
On 10/20/11 08:12, Chet Ramey wrote: On 10/20/11 10:48 AM, Bruce Korb wrote: You may have this in the queue already, but just in case: POSIX now specifies that if a standard utility has extended options, then you accomplish it with ``-W option-name[=opt-arg]''. That's not actually published

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