https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272260
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@freebsd.org> changed:
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--- Comment #11 from Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@freebsd.org> ---
Because `getopt(3)` returns `?` when it encounters an error, and the usual way
to handle said error is to print a usage message and exit, `-?` can usually be
relied upon to produce a usage message even if the author of the utility did
not think to provide a `-h` option for that purpose. Some people have
improperly internalized this as “`-?` is the standard way to request a usage
message”, which is not the case. The author of `bectl(8)` appears to be one of
those people, and hardcoded a check for `-?` in `bectl(8)`'s non-standard
command line parser. My recommendation is to rewrite `bectl(8)` to use
`getopt(3)` and remove all mention of `-?` from the usage string and manual
page.
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