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Date:      Thu, 24 Jun 1999 17:41:43 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        imp@harmony.village.org, ken@plutotech.com
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/i4b/isdnd main.c src/usr.sbin/i4b/isdndebug main.c src/usr.sbin/i4b/isdndecode main.c src/usr.s
Message-ID:  <199906240741.RAA31133@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>this to getopt usage.  The adding of '?' to usage strings in the past
>is something that Bruce has complained about, which is why I've added
>it to my list of things to filter on.  Changes like this have

I think I only complained about adding it to getopt() case statements.

>If posix allows it, I'd rather change getopt(3) to not complain about
>'?' being an illegal option when the option is '?'.  This would make
>all the programs consistant, and also make old programs which use '?'
>as an option

POSIX.2 seems to require printing a message to identify invalid option
characters (ones not in the optstring).

Bruce


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