Patrick Eisenacher wrote: > Hi Max, > > thanks for your quick response. Indeed, setting the > POSIXLY_INCORRECT_GETOPT environment variable did the trick and produces > a result that is in synch with the man page. > > Since I don't know anything about the various flavours of getopts around > and what is posixly correct and what not, and I guess a lot of other > users don't know neither, how about updating the man pages to be in > synch with the current behaviour and adding a paragraph on the > POSIXLY_INCORRECT_GETOPT stuff?
PTC. Given this: >> ... because getopt is statically linked, this only works for >> programs rebuilt since this change was made, and many haven't been yet. such a patch is unlikely to be commited until after 1.5 has been released, as most stuff will have been recompiled by then. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
