Klemens Nanni wrote:
> rarpd(8) is small enough where my impression is that refining it a
> little would be good, but it quickly comes down to personal taste.
And I continue to disagree.
Another example of the same pattern is ifconfig. Here you will see it
is not documented that [-a] is
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 02:52:37PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 01:07:04PM +, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > rarpd(8) either "Listen[s] on all the Ethernets attached to the system"
> > or requires an explicit list, not both:
> >
> > $ rarpd -a em0
> > usage: rarpd
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 10:09:32AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> The getopt language is imprecise, and attempts to be precise with it
> usually go poorly.
>
> For example,
>
> SYNOPSIS
> ls [-1AaCcdFfgHhikLlmnopqRrSsTtux] [file ...]
>
> % ls -1AaCcdFfgHhikLlmnopqRrSsTtux
>
> The result
The getopt language is imprecise, and attempts to be precise with it
usually go poorly.
For example,
SYNOPSIS
ls [-1AaCcdFfgHhikLlmnopqRrSsTtux] [file ...]
% ls -1AaCcdFfgHhikLlmnopqRrSsTtux
The result may seem surprising. I claim the result is not surprising.
It is unsurprising because
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 01:07:04PM +, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> rarpd(8) either "Listen[s] on all the Ethernets attached to the system"
> or requires an explicit list, not both:
>
> $ rarpd -a em0
> usage: rarpd [-adflt] if0 [... ifN]
> $ ./obj/rarpd -a em0
> usage: rarpd
