Harald van Dijk <a...@gigawatt.nl> wrote:
> > posh does not work because it sets "optind" to 0 even though POSIX requires
> > it
> > to be initialized with 1.
>
> Implementations are allowed to accept this as an extension, and if they
> do, they are allowed to make use of that extension in their utilities.
POSIX intends to create portability at source code level.
Code that is not portable does not follow the POSIX way.
Jörg
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