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Re: New getopt.c has different behavior -- should it?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-developers@cygwin.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


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