Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What Wget could do to ensure consistency is unset the variable > POSIXLY_CORRECT during option processing. All other effects of > POSIXLY_CORRECT on getopt (such as use of "illegal" rather than > "invalid" in the error message) are negligible. To me that seems a > better (or less bad) solution than just documenting the inconsistency. > > What do you think?
You would have to take care that it's restored to its original setting for --execute. Otherwise that seems to be as good an option as any. I'm surprised getopt doesn't have an option to explicitly keep the reordering behaviour regardless of the environment variable though. -- greg
