Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:54:36 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Bug 203279] /bin/expr operator : fails when the string has a leading hyphen. Message-ID: <662168A7-44B1-4B58-B883-F2CAB93E3909@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <bug-203279-8-XeHusCaikx@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-203279-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> <bug-203279-8-XeHusCaikx@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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> On Oct 18, 2015, at 12:25, bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org wrote: > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203279 > > Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@FreeBSD.org> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |jilles@FreeBSD.org > > --- Comment #1 from Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@FreeBSD.org> --- > If options that take an option-argument of ":" can be excluded forever, a > simple workaround would be to skip option processing if there are 3 arguments > (excluding argv[0]) and the second argument is ":". > > A stronger form of only treating "--" and "-e" as options would prevent adding > any more options without compatibility problems. > > Perhaps this is acceptable, since expr is not a utility where major extensions > are expected. It would also make FreeBSD more compatible with Linux/NetBSD.
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