an alternative suggestion for "tar" and user/group names

[Vladimir N. Oleynik]

Paul,

>  >     { "no-same-owner",      0,  NULL,   '\203' },
>  >     { "no-same-permissions",0,  NULL,   '\213' },
>  >     ...
>  >     { "exclude",            1,  NULL,   '\n' },
>  >     ...
>  > 
>  > what's happening here?  
> 
> the bb option parser insists on having a short option to correspond with
> very long option.  the values you see there are dummy values, unlikely
> to ever be actually typed, which act as placeholders in the struct.
> yes, it's really ugly.

Hmm. You say about very old bb_getopt_ulflags before Oct 2005.


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