On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:39:51AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> 
> > Just about all command line Unix programs use getopt() for argument
> > parsing, so just about all command line Unix program will allow this
> > trick to work:
> 
> This is described in the getopt manual page: "The special option ``--'' is
> used to delimit the end of the options."
> 
> But it is not described in the rmdir manual page. I wonder if a note
> about this should be added to the rmdir manual page.

I don't think so. To be consistent you (somebody) would need to update
the man page of every program that used getopt(). That's a whole bunch
of man pages.

Chalk it up to "one of those things" and leave it in just the getopt
page.
-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/

"It sounded pretty good, but it's hard to tell how it will work out
in practice." -- Dennis Ritchie, ~1977, "Summary of a DEC 32-bit machine"