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Re: Question about ash and getopts
- From: seebs at plethora dot net (Peter Seebach)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 02:07:23 -0600
- Subject: Re: Question about ash and getopts
- Reply-to: seebs at plethora dot net (Peter Seebach)
In message <3FEFDE5B.3000801@helixdigital.com>, Dario Alcocer writes:
>Peter Seebach wrote:
>
>>I know this is a pseudo-FAQ, but I haven't been able to find a clear enough
>>answer in the archives.
>>
>>1. Is it not the case that POSIX provides a specification for the getopts
>>builtin?
>>2. Doesn't ash, as originally written, implement getopts?
>>
>>I'm trying to figure out why this feature was removed, and I've never gotten
>>an answer that made much sense. Every other POSIX-like system I can think
>>of supports getopts in /bin/sh. Why is Cygwin different?
>>
>>
>Use the "set -- `getopt`" idiom instead:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01114.html
Yes, but *why*? Why not use the thing that's in the POSIX shell spec,
which works everywhere else?
I have a few dozen scripts which have worked on every Unix system I've seen
since the mid-90s, and the feature appears to date back to SVR3 (1986).
I could understand not implementing it; what I can't understand is expending
extra effort to remove it.
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