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Date:      Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:09:22 +0000
From:      Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
To:        Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw ipfw.8 ipfw.c ipfw2.c
Message-ID:  <20030113140921.GH35226@survey.codeburst.net>
In-Reply-To: <200212232008.gBNK8LAw041144@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200212232008.gBNK8LAw041144@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 12:08:21PM -0800, Kelly Yancey wrote:
> kbyanc      2002/12/23 12:08:21 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/ipfw            ipfw.8 ipfw.c ipfw2.c 
>   Log:
>   Make preprocessor support more generic by passing all command-line options
>   after -p except for the last (the ruleset file to process) to the
>   preprocessor for interpretation.  This allows command-line options besides
>   -U and -D to be passed to cpp(1) and m4(1) as well as making it easier to
>   use other preprocessors.

I'm not sure this is a good idea.

If you want to ensure that options are passed to the preprocessor then
they can be put in quotes rather than changing normal command line
semantics to make a certain option "magic" in that it swallows all
remaining options except the last one. This will confuse anyone who
doesn't read the documentation carefully and realises -p does this.

Paul.

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