Re: lib/59828: getopt(3) GNU extension wrong behavior

["Valery Ushakov via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/59828; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: lib/59828: getopt(3) GNU extension wrong behavior
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:31:21 +0300

 On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 18:05:01 +0000, Simon Wollwage via gnats wrote:
 
 >  That is less confusing (even if I think that UX might be better if the
 >  whitespace were allowed, but that is besides the point.
 
 The behaviour cannot be changed b/c that would break people's scripts
 that do things like (a random example off the top of my head):
 
     sed -i '/^constty/s/off/on/' $target/etc/ttys
 
 
 That also opens a can of worms with an optarg that starts with a dash,
 e.g.
 
     sed -i -OLD ...
 
 
 -uwe