Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> On May 19 17:46, Christian Franke wrote:
>> ...
>> $ egrep 'ACL|--r' chattr.c
>>            "Get POSIX ACL information\n"
>>        "  -R, --recursive     recursively list attributes of directories and
>> their \n"
> Oops.  Please patch while you're at it...
> ...
>>  From 865a5a50501f3fd0cf5ed28500d3e6e45a6456de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Christian Franke<...>
>> Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 16:24:47 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] Cygwin: utils: chattr: Improve option parsing.
>>
>> Interpret '-h' as '--help' only if last argument.
> Who was the idiot using -h for help *and* the hidden flag? *blush*
>
> I'd vote for --help to be changed to -H for the single character
> option.  The help output is very unlikely to be used in scripts,
> so that shouldn't be a backward compat problem.

New patch attached.

Note that there is now the possibly unexpected (& hidden) behavior that 
'chattr -h' without file argument clears the hidden attribute of cwd.

Regards,
Christian