On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:41:06AM +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:06:47AM +0100, Juergen Daubert wrote: > > with logger from util-linux 2.25.x it's possible to combine the option > > -i with other options like: > > > > logger -is > > > > with 2.26 I get the following error message: > > > > $:~> logger -is > > logger: failed to parse id: 's' > > > > The changed behaviour breaks existing scripts like dhcpcd-run-hooks [1] > > from dhcpcd [2]. > > Hmm... stupid regression, next time it would be probably better to > introduce optional arguments for long options only. > > Anyway, always use long options in scripts. It's more robust and more > readable. here's the response from dhcpcd's author: The original BSD sources from which logger is clearly based don't support long options .... and dhcpcd needs to work with them. Greetings Juergen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
