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From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:28:34PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote:
> > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > I think green was implying that sed would have its own getopt instead
> > > of changing the system getopt.
> > 
> > Ugh.  Nasty.  Especially if the modified getopt() could be useful to
> > other programs as well (do we have any programs with options that take
> > optional arguments?)
> 
> Okay, fine, assume we'd just do the same thing to the system's getopt() 
> instead of a special getopt().  So then...?

Better to localise the dispicable behaviour to sed(1).  Other programs
provide their own egetopt(), for non-standard stuff.

If sed(1) is supposed to be portable, it can't rely on such a change to
the system getopt(3), and I'd be hesitant to say we should at all.  But
that's just a bikeshed opinion.

Well, that and I had patches to getopt(3) when I proposed optional args
to xargs(1) for GNU/compatability, and I was told outright by a few
individuals "don't touch getopt(3), even if your change won't affect
existing programs, it's non-portable as hell".

Anyway.
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