From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 19 12:20:45 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C338F37C030; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:20:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 12FCB1C66; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:20:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:20:39 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Archie Cobbs , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c Message-ID: <20000719152039.B51462@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000719145541.W51462@jade.chc-chimes.com> <6425.964033513@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <6425.964033513@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:05:13PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:05:13PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > progname -? is _not_ the UNIX way. I did this to a program once and was > > given many reasons why it was bad. they may be archived. > > Are you sure that what you got was not criticism of a specific getopt() > use? :-) Search the commit logs for "Ben Olson " who was the co-worker who submitted the change, hopefully that will give you enough to dig up the thread. The main reason is that ? is a (for all intents and purposes) a reserved shell character and typing: foo -\? Seems a bit silly now. To quote They Might Be Giants: "I felt young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now." -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message