Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 17:03:20 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1 Message-ID: <200205081603.g48G3KjV084431@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <xzplmauprle.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> "08 May 2002 17:49:33 %2B0200." References: <xzplmauprle.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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[ CC: list assaulted with a machete ] > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > I think green was implying that sed would have its own getopt instead > > of changing the system getopt. > > Ugh. Nasty. Especially if the modified getopt() could be useful to > other programs as well (do we have any programs with options that take > optional arguments?) At the risk of detracting from the matter at hand, this would be a useful extension to getopt(3), as would the ability to have numeric-only options (a' la "tail -123"), that is not just single digits, but whole numbers. I'm not going to write it, I'm not going argue about it, and I'm not going to say any more about it, so if this is utterly ridiculous, then ignore me and this branch of the thread will die :-). M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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