In article <20070627171355.GA27575@NetBSD.org>,
Brian Ginsbach  <ginsbach@NetBSD.org> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:03:45PM -0500, M Graff wrote:
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>> I also found a problem when using some package (id3v2 I think) which has
>> options like:
>> 
>> 	--list-frames
>> 	--list-genres
>> 	--list
>> 
>> The problem is, --list is treated as 'ambiguous' even though it is an
>> EXACT match.  Ideally, the code should search for an exact match first,
>> then resort to trying to find the only option that begins with that
>> string second.  It can remember strings it finds along the way, of
>> course, so the best match is always found without walking the list twice.
>> 
>
>The proposed patch fixes this problem too.
>
>The current getopt_long(3) works only if the long option array
>passed has "list" before the longer "list-frames" and "list-genres".
>Again this seems to violate POLA.

Let's fix it then!

christos