getopts security problem

[Nico Schottelius]

Hello dear developers,

I hope I am somehow hitting the correct list, if not, please
redirect me to the correct list.

While trying to change some permissions in my homedir, this happened to
me:

scice# chown nico.nico *
chown: unrecognized option `--owner=0'
Try `chown --help' for more information.

Well, sometime before I did a mistake with tar, which created the
file `--owner=0'. 

What I am asking you: Why does chown accept arguments, which are
not at the beginning? Is that a glibc "bug" or "feature"?

I know it from some other Unices, that only parameters allowed
at first, not after arguments.

Thanks for any help,

Nico

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