Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] tla dosen't handle '--' as end of option argument

[Yann Droneaud]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 02:00:01PM +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote:
>> POSIX tell us, that '--' should be transparent on the command line, and
>> change only the behavior of the commande line parser, not the
>> behavior/work/purpose of the tool.
>> 
>> ls <files>
>> ls -- <files>
>> ls <files> --
>> 
>> are equivalents calls to a command if <files> doesn't contain files
>> beginning with '-'.  And it doesn't change the way ls will display your
>> files.
>
> I think this is a slightly miss-represention of what tla does.  It's more
> like the case of `ls <files>' versus `ls' -- the presence or absence of
> <file> arguments causes ls to behave differently.
>

but 'ls --' is equivalent to 'ls'.

'tla undo' is not equivalent to 'tla undo --', in fact the latter does
not work at all, the '--' command switch require argument : '--' change
the behavior of the command instead of changing only the command line
parsing.

But, the point is not to prove if tla behavor is POSIX compatible
(it's not ;), but to think if it's acceptable. And it's probably an
endless discussion.

(That's why i made this bug report a wishlist).

Regards.

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