On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:03:04 +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > please just commit this patch you sent out back in July. > The old, verbose style keeps confusing people, > see for example Jan Stary's recent messages to tech@. > I guess you just overlooked my OK. > There was no opposition when you put this on tech@.
Note that this changes the behavior slightly when an option is specified: Before: $ logname -z logname: unknown option -- z usage: logname After: $ logname -z usage: logname Depending on your point of view, this could be considered a feature. Personally, I prefer the getopt(3) way. - todd