Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 20:18:01 +0000 From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1 Message-ID: <20020508201800.GB19530@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <200205081728.g48HSYf47716@green.bikeshed.org> References: <xzplmauprle.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200205081728.g48HSYf47716@green.bikeshed.org>
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:28:34PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote: > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > > I think green was implying that sed would have its own getopt instead > > > of changing the system getopt. > > > > Ugh. Nasty. Especially if the modified getopt() could be useful to > > other programs as well (do we have any programs with options that take > > optional arguments?) > > Okay, fine, assume we'd just do the same thing to the system's getopt() > instead of a special getopt(). So then...? Better to localise the dispicable behaviour to sed(1). Other programs provide their own egetopt(), for non-standard stuff. If sed(1) is supposed to be portable, it can't rely on such a change to the system getopt(3), and I'd be hesitant to say we should at all. But that's just a bikeshed opinion. Well, that and I had patches to getopt(3) when I proposed optional args to xargs(1) for GNU/compatability, and I was told outright by a few individuals "don't touch getopt(3), even if your change won't affect existing programs, it's non-portable as hell". Anyway. -- 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 freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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