The getopt long thing breaks the tree.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed May 31 21:18:12 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 31 May 2006 11:14 am, Rich Felker wrote:
> Also GNU getopt's permutation nonsense will probably horribly mess up
> this method even tho it's fully POSIX compliant. Yay for broken GNU
> extensions!

A year and a half ago, Busybox's was pretty strongly Linux-only, and not 
particularly interested in anything else.  Statements like the above make me 
regret softening that stance, and consider going back to it.

Rob
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