--- On Tue, 3/6/12, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hi. Upstream maintainer of man-pages here. I'm not at all sure that > the problem in #655685 is because of getopt(). (How did you conclude > that it is?) >
The Debian maintainer think so. Based on what is written at http://bugs.debian.org/655685, I think it is unlikely not to point to getopt. > Allowing a space between option character and argument is > longstanding > UNIX (and Linux behavior), and as far as I can see POSIX is > explicit > in allowing it I was just trying to make the manual page accurately document the actual behavior of the program. Do you think I should close my report, and file a bug to libc (assuming this is not yet reported)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
