From owner-cvs-all Wed May 1 20:36:20 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from finntroll.newgold.net (durham-ar1-4-64-252-019.durham.dsl-verizon.net [4.64.252.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27FC037B419 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 20:36:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12752 invoked by uid 1001); 2 May 2002 03:39:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 03:39:00 +0000 From: "J. Mallett" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: "J. Mallett" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.1 xargs.c Message-ID: <20020502033900.GA28659@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <200205020242.g422gYg56815@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020502032910.GA21076@FreeBSD.ORG> <200205020332.g423WroO017406@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205020332.g423WroO017406@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organisation: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:32:53PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > I want to add -i to be compatible with GNU, but I can't figure out > > how getopt(3) can best be used to deal with an option that > > may-or-may-not take an argument. > > Since the Utility Syntax Guidelines prohibit such optional arguments, > I'd advise against doing so. Thank you. -- jmallett@FreeBSD.org | C, MIPS, POSIX, UNIX, BSD, IRC Geek. http://www.FreeBSD.org | The Power to Serve "I've never tried to give my life meaning by demeaning you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message