From owner-freebsd-standards Tue Jul 23 10:48: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FAEB37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:48:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from numeri.campus.luth.se (numeri.campus.luth.se [130.240.197.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1776343E42 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:48:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from k@numeri.campus.luth.se) Received: (from k@localhost) by numeri.campus.luth.se (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6NHm2D54800 for standards@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:48:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from k) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:48:02 +0200 From: Johan Karlsson To: standards@freebsd.org Subject: repeated options to mean different thing Message-ID: <20020723194802.C50574@numeri.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi In PR 40709 I suggested to use to use -v to mean be verbose (current behaivour) and repeated -v (e.g chmod -v -v 777 file, or chmod -vv 777 file) to mean be very verbose. tcpdump uses a variant of this where -v mean be verbose and -vv mean be even more verbose. Sheldon told me to ask here if this goes against POSIX or some other standard. So, is the use of repeated options prohibited by POSIX? Or is this a stupid idea from some other standards point of view? Take care /Johan -- Johan Karlsson mailto:johan@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message