From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: trivial mkpasswd defect
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020529181000.77969.qmail@web20002.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1022689557.2608.ezmlm@cygwin.com>
> > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:14:14AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > > mkpasswd reports '?' is a valid help option but fails to accept it.
> > >
> > > $ mkpasswd --help
> > > Usage: mkpasswd [OPTION]... [domain]
> > >
> > > This program prints a /etc/passwd file to stdout
> > >
> > > Options:
> > > ... snip ...
> > > -?,--help displays this message
> > >
> > > $ mkpasswd -?
> > > mkpasswd: unknown option -- ?
> >
> > Thanks. This will go away in the next version.
>
> I hope you mean that '-?' will work, not that '-?' will be taken out of the
> usage.
>
She meant what she said. See
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2002-q2/msg00103.html
for details. Or better yet, the CVS.
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2002-05-29 14:17 ` Joshua Daniel Franklin [this message]
2002-05-29 10:16 Jon LaBadie
2002-05-29 10:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-05-29 11:36 ` Bernard A Badger
2002-05-29 15:48 ` Stuart Brady
2002-05-29 15:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-05-29 16:39 ` Michael A Chase
2002-05-29 20:22 ` Bernard A Badger
2002-05-29 20:41 ` Michael A Chase
2002-05-29 21:10 ` Michael A Chase
2002-05-30 9:20 ` Bernard A Badger
2002-05-30 11:38 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-05-30 16:06 ` Bernard A Badger
2002-05-30 9:35 ` Bernard A Badger
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