James Carlson wrote:
> Scott Rotondo writes:
>> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>> That said, I do sort of think that the rule you have, while workable, is
>>> more confusing and violates the principle of least surprise. (I.e.
>>> you added a switch by accident which suddenly changed the meaning of
>>> other options in a totally unexpected fashion.)
>> This approach (interpreting the options as either BSD or SVR4 depending
>> on whether the dash is present) has been used for ps on other systems
>> before. I don't think anyone will be terribly surprised.
>
> Depending on the presence of "-" isn't novel. Other OSes have done
> this before. Inspecting the options in a presumed-BSD-ish list and
> reverting to SVR4 behavior if an unexpected option is seen _is_ new,
> and it's what caused both Garrett and me to say something.
>
OK, sorry I misunderstood your point.
Scott
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