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To: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
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Subject: Re: Fixing documented bug in env(1) 
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 21:12:42 -0700
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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Honestly, I don't care about this all that much.  I'll let you and
David debate this to your liking.  If no consensus develops in the
next few days, I'll just commit what I have now.  (Obviously, if
consensus does develop I'll go along with it.)

Thanks,

					Dima Dorfman
					dima@unixfreak.org

seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:
> In message <20010602030518.E3CE63E32@bazooka.unixfreak.org>, Dima Dorfman writes:
> >But this isn't terminating the end of a series of "options"; it's
> >terminating a series of assignments, and since env(1) detemines
> >whether an argument is an assignment or not by whether it has a '=' in
> >it, it makes sense to use '==' as David suggests.
> 
> No.  The reason for "--" is that it's two of the *START* of an option.
> env assignments don't *start* with =.
> 
> The most consistent thing here is "-- to separate parts of a command line".
> 
> >It's different from
> >the others because it signifies the end of a different kind of
> >"series".
> 
> Sure, but the user doesn't necessarily care.  Certainly, no one has ever
> tried to use "==" to end any sequence of arguments anywhere; people use --
> to end subsequences of arguments all the time.
> 
> -s
> 
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