Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <004f01c2c7ec$434b41d0$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" Cc: References: Subject: Re: getopt_long behavior Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:15:07 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Chris Morgan wrote: > I've never used a flavor of linux that didn't support > arguments and options in arbitrary(within reason) order. I > think if you started forcing users to enter options in a > strict order you would be met with considerable resistance as > this restriction is unnecessary. I'm not asking for every > tool to accept arguments in different orders, I'm just asking > ofr getopt_long() to accept reordering. All apps that use > getopt_long() will then support argument reordering to the > extent that getopt_long() does, all of the tools I use on > linux boxes do so, including gcc and linker tools, without any > trouble at all. This behavior actually used to be supported > in cygwin but was changed, maybe a year or a year and a half > ago. On Mon Sep 24 22:49:12 2001 UTC (16 months ago), to be precise. Hmm - with that info, I found a little bit of info on cyg-dev about why the change was made. The problem essentially being with commands that take other commands after them: strace ls -l #oops, getopt makes this strace -l ls It seems like you trade ease of use in some circumstances with difficulty in others. > I just wanted to bring the issue back up again to see if > cygwin tools could be made to work like their linux/unix > counterparts again. I guess it all depends on which you aspire to be closer to, linux or POSIX. Personally, I'd prefer it if Cygwin didn't enforce POSIXLY_CORRECT, and people who wanted it could set it in their environment. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/