On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:08 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Enough work? Is the main problem in that ssh option parsing code doesn't > support long options and doing this in C in cross-platform manner doesn't > worth the development time? > Long options are a non-standard GNU extension. OpenSSH aims to be a POSIX program. See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/getopt.html and http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap12.html#tag_12_02 . > Maybe the problem is that people are not interested to do this work, > because it simply doesn't affect them? More like people disagree with you that it should be done. from upthread: > HTML pages are more usable than man, just because we are all familiar > with browsers and know where is their search button. Try http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1 -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
