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Re: getopt() argument permuting considered risky
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote, on 04 Aug 2004:
>
> Geoff Clare wrote:
>
> > In my view a much better way to handle this extension would be for
> > the default behaviour to be as per the standard,
>
> Fortunately your view has no influence. Nothing will change, the thread
> is over.
Sheesh. I was just expressing an opinion. Roland gave a nicely
polite and reasonable response. Why couldn't you?
Sometimes it seems like you go out of your way to antagonise people.
> If you don't like what you see change the behavior in your own
> copy of the code.
It's not my copy of the code that worries me. It's the copies of all
those unsuspecting users who could be bitten by this getopt() feature.
Simon's rsh story is a very good example of the kind of thing that
can happen.
Regards,
Geoff Clare.