Re: standards/14702 (xargs man page lies)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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. 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