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
