Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:16:20 +0200 (METDST) From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: imp@harmony.village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: des@flood.ping.uio.no, bde@zeta.org.au, hm@hcs.de, 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: <m10xQDk-0000fqC@hcswork.hcs.de> In-Reply-To: <199906250653.AAA42025@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Jun 25, 99 00:53:31 am"
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From the keyboard of Warner Losh: > : http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/getopt.html > > I guess I was unclear. This page, as well as our man pages, say that > getopt returns '?' when it encounters a bad option. Neither this web > page, nor our man page, state that it is illegal to have '?' in the > options string, nor do they say that -? is illegal. This is splitting > a very fine hair, This is true, but we're talking about a fundamental feature of every interactive program - getting basic help (and no, not man prog .. ;-) ). IMHO, the flag which is used to get help should not bring an error message back to the user. > I personally think encouraging -? is dangerous given its potential > danger, as others have pointed out Good. I can accept that and switch to using another flag for getting help - BUT i think also that FreeBSD should use this flag consistently for all or most of the programs and it should be documented in a well known and easy to find place. What should the help flag character be ? hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 559747-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 559747-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de 22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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