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From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: windres broken
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 05:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5875c16d.8440ca0a.2df89.c136@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9357cba-c5ae-16ec-2df2-882d96ac53df@cornell.edu>

On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 17:14:24, Ken Brown wrote:
>  From http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/opterr.3.html:
> By default, getopt() permutes the contents of argv as it scans, so that 
> eventually all the nonoptions are at the end.  Two other modes are also 
> implemented.  If the first character of optstring is '+' or the 
> environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, then option processing 
> stops as soon as a nonoption argument is encountered.

Thanks for this. The Git repo accepted my commit to use POSIX syntax:

http://github.com/git/git/commit/7c44b33

I think it makes sense for the Cygwin example to use POSIX syntax as well, or at
least make a note of it.


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-11  5:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-07  4:10 Steven Penny
2017-01-07 13:47 ` Ken Brown
2017-01-07 18:54   ` Steven Penny
2017-01-07 22:14     ` Ken Brown
2017-01-11  5:24       ` Steven Penny [this message]
2017-01-07 14:01 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker

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