Theo de Raadt(dera...@openbsd.org) on 2018.02.20 22:27:27 -0700: > > If you read through all the options in the manual page carefully, > ifconfig is not consistant. As a result it cannot use getopt. > It isn't a POSIX argument grammar. It grew up with that funky > table, and there we are. > > Both cases occur. "-option argument" and "-option". There is > even at least one case of "-option [optarg]" (-carpdemote [number]).
I would be happy if this would become "carpdemote [-]number", but i guess its a bit too late to change now.
