From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 25 22:42: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400DB14FC6 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 22:42:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA05064; Tue, 25 May 1999 22:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19990525224157.D4843@nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:41:57 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Warner Losh , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getopt.c in gnu/*/* Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199905232311.RAA14737@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199905232311.RAA14737@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Sun, May 23, 1999 at 05:11:43PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-BETA Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is there any reason to have getopt.c replicated in so many different > programs: > cvs, grep, gzip, patch, ptx, sort, tar > and maybe a few others that I missed... for src/contrib/ we try not to dink too much with the code. Otherwise the maintance can get heavy. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message