Isn't it also fixed in -current though?
My current is about 4-5 days old, and anything using '-' flags works just
fine.

-Sean

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 07:14:02PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:50:14PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> > This was a change to getopt() in libc, I noticed it too a little while back.
> > As far as I can tell on my system, su - works (it did not for a couple days,
> > till '-' compatibility was put back in getopt)
> > 
> > It was changed because of a standards issue, I can't remember exactly which
> > standard '-' violates, but I think it was POSIX.
> 
> I raised a bug because of what happens when you type 'ls -l-'.
> Unfortunately I didn't realise that anything expected a single '-'
> to get through getopt().....
> 
> There is a fixed version on getopt() on my web space (www.l8s.co.uk
> then netbsd/getopt.c - hardly a web site!) that fizes the -l- bug and
> lets su, env and anything else work.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have write access, to can't apply it :-(
> 
> 	David
> 
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> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk

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