Mutt made me believe that Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > Yes, but that could easily be fixed by adding '+' as the first
> > character to the options string. And I'd have fixed the in-tree
> > programs for this, of course.
> 
> Please note that this "+"-thing makes our sources less portable (unless I
> missed getopt specifying this behaviour). This will bite people starting
> new ports on non-NetBSD platforms, etc.

It's not critical per se, because if the native getopt version doesn't
know what '+' does, the program will just accept '-+' additionally,
and not know what to do with it -- but there should be no program
calling it with '-+', since it's not a valid option.

Bye,
 Thomas

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