The library I referred to was getopt. It just seems to be trying to be a
bit too clever... kind of like the automatic tuning radios in Hitch
Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I didn't know about the existing oddity in
rsh. Thanks for the education.
Tim Conway
Unix System Administration
Contractor
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 05:43:28PM -0400, Anthony Heading wrote:
> This is the cygwin build of rsync, with the standard cygwin
> rsh (which is a fairly old GNU inetutils 1.3.2).
A few months ago cygwin switched their getopt code (when they added
getopt support to their library, I think) and this m
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:35:24AM -0600, Tim Conway wrote:
> A few weeks ago, I corrected a guys commandline, wherein a flag came after
> a directory specification, and was informed that new libraries rearrange
> ARGV. I was somewhat abashed, not having known that, but also thought
> that was
A few weeks ago, I corrected a guys commandline, wherein a flag came after
a directory specification, and was informed that new libraries rearrange
ARGV. I was somewhat abashed, not having known that, but also thought
that was a really stupid idea. Now we have to do kludgy workarounds in
orde
