On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:42:38PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Package: timelimit > Version: 1.3-1 > Severity: normal > > Timelimit errors out when the arguments to the commands have leading -'s > unless the command is prepended with '--'. Timelimit appears to eat up > everything > starting with a '-' until it consumes a '--'. [snip] > > A simple fix would be to say in the man page (and the help) that the command > must > always be preceded by '--'.
Well, this is actually bog-standard getopt(3) behavior, the same as with many other utilities :) But, yes, you are right, it might be surprising to people who try this first with timelimit. I will add a note to the manpage. Thanks for the feedback! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on
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