Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:32:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, Archie Cobbs <archie@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c Message-ID: <20000721093221.L936@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200007200728.IAA09150@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <grog@lemis.com> <200007200728.IAA09150@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 8:28:16 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: >> Others have contradicted this view. But maybe we should think of a >> consistent way to do it. I've always done something like 'foo >> -fdsafds' to force a usage message. Maybe -? should be acceptable, >> since it's what people will expect. > > Heh :-) > > hak:~ $ ls -fdsafds > 4 . :-) I said "something like". But it does prove my point that we should find something consistent. In fact, ls does "allow" -? (it still prints ls: illegal option -- ? but the code explicitly mentions it as the way to get the usage message; obviously something that should be fixed. The trouble is that it doesn't always work without -\?. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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