On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 18.10.12 14:05, Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> journalctl -n500 -f >> >> (No space allowed after then -n.) > > The space thing is really annoying actually. glibc's getopt() insists on > that for options such as "-n" that have an optional argument (i.e. which > appear as "n::" in the opt string). I'd love to fix this if somebody has > an idea to get getopt() to be nice to us here... Please just don't use optional arguments. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html is the closest we have for a consensus on argument handling: > Guideline 7: > Option-arguments should not be optional. (The glibc behavior is also consistent with 12.1 item 2.) Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
