On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:50:14PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> This was a change to getopt() in libc, I noticed it too a little while back.
> As far as I can tell on my system, su - works (it did not for a couple days,
> till '-' compatibility was put back in getopt)
> 
> It was changed because of a standards issue, I can't remember exactly which
> standard '-' violates, but I think it was POSIX.

I raised a bug because of what happens when you type 'ls -l-'.
Unfortunately I didn't realise that anything expected a single '-'
to get through getopt().....

There is a fixed version on getopt() on my web space (www.l8s.co.uk
then netbsd/getopt.c - hardly a web site!) that fizes the -l- bug and
lets su, env and anything else work.

Unfortunately I don't have write access, to can't apply it :-(

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk