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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: bin/35201: link and unlink are not SUSv2-compliant as the manpage
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The following reply was made to PR bin/35201; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: Tim Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	<freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: bin/35201: link and unlink are not SUSv2-compliant as the manpage
 states
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:40:19 +1100 (EST)

 On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Tim Robbins wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 > The manual pages for link and unlink, which are 'part of' ln and rm,
 > and share the same manual pages, claim that these utilities are SUSV2
 > compliant. This is not the case.
 >
 > >From The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2, XBD, Utility Argument Syntax:
 > Guideline 10:
 > "The argument -- should be accepted as a delimiter indicating the end of
 > options. Any following arguments should be treated as operands, even if they
 
 Can you quote POSIX.1-2001?  It is more authoritative, and almost as
 easy to find.
 
 > ...
 > link and unlink, therefore, should accept the "--" delimiter.
 
 The fix for this part should use getopt(3) instead of yet more home
 made arg parsing.  getopt(3) gives special semantics "--" automagically.
 I think they are the same as specified in the guidelines.  Otherwise,
 many other utilities would have this bug.
 
 Bruce
 

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