Re: standards/14702 (xargs man page lies)

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 21:35:50 -0400 christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos
Zoulas) wrote:
> On Jul 13,  9:25pm, dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: standards/14702 (xargs man page lies)
> 
> |  What about -i, -l, and -e (see the PR)?
> 
> These predate -I -L and -E (the POSIX versions) and are documented
> to be obsolete in the linux man page.

POSIX doesn't seem to indicate that they're obsolete. It lists them
at any rate, and describes their functions without deprecating them.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/xargs.html

> Although our getopt supports
> optional arguments now, it is not worth it in my opinion to emulate
> obsolete behavior.
> 
> This PR is another proof to my theorem: Wait long enough and every
> problem gets magically fixed.
> 
> christos
> 



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