Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 19:31:30 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, imp@village.org Subject: Re: getopt and EOF vs -1 Message-ID: <199703150831.TAA29813@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>A long time ago, I filed a bug saying that getopt returns -1 rather >than EOF. The general concensus at the time was approximately "Wait >for lite-2, and then fix it." Lite-2 documents getopt this way now, >so I'm in the process of fixing it in our source base when I want >something to do that doesn't require much thought or skill. I've just >finished usr.sbin and will be moving on to the rest of the tree. I >plan on making sure that these things survive a make world and that >the system survies after that make world. This will likely take about >week or two to accomplish. This places the bulk checkin safely after >2.2R goes out. There are about 331 possibilities. Do you really wish to fix them all? (y or n) :-) I don't think the ones in code with an active vendor (other than us) should be changed, but there isn't much point in changing our code until others catch up. Bruce
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