This is probably a silly question, but how long can the output of stty -g be?
Because as worded ("line of text") the output would be limited to less than
LINE_MAX. If that might be an issue the wording could be changed to something
like "string of characters terminated by a newline".
--
Wayne
...
For context, the example was . nohup should be, and as far as I
know, is required to support invocations as
, treating that first <--> as the end of the options. The GNU extension
that options and the end-of-options indicator can also follow operands is as far as I
know not supported by
On 11/1/2021 9:12 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 08:21:55PM -0400, Wayne Pollock via austin-group-l at
The Open Group wrote:
Is it guaranteed that on conforming systems nohup (and friends) must not accept
or
delete the first "--"? For the example to work,
Is it guaranteed that on conforming systems nohup (and friends) must not accept
or
delete the first "--"? For the example to work, nohup must not discard the
"--".
But might it?
Section 1.4 "Utility Description Defaults" of the Introduction states
"... Default Behavior: When this section is
