-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Pádraig Brady on 10/14/2008 3:47 AM: >> With native versions of expr, and expr from GNU coreutils prior to >> version 7.0, the expansion of lscmd usually begins "-rw-r--r--", but >> the leading hyphen does not cause the word to be treated as an option. > > I think that was an unintended change introduced when adding getopt to expr: > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=f65cafd67b33009d23f940968bbe7f9a08d6fe13
Unintended or not, getopt's side effect of complaining about unrecognized options is necessary for standard compliance (ie. all earlier versions of coreutils had a bug in this area), so we should not revert it. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj0ie4ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCNCgCfYTK6YOxq7Fo9lTZe82zYsgUi nwwAoKxiWo7zzo7kbq1C9Mb70glnE4oz =qBCO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
