"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Aren't there other cases where a short option needs to be > converted to a long one? As I already said, making internal call to libified part (perhaps in trailer.c) would make this part of conversation a moot point, but in general you can find argv_push(&child.args, "cmd2"); if (... some condition that involves variables parsed out ... ... by parse_options() of implementation of cmd1 ...) argv_push(&child.args, "--option-for-cmd2"); ... run_command(&child); in implementation of cmd1 that calls out to cmd2. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html