The following reply was made to PR bin/32340; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/32340: rs doesn't parse options POSIXly
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:28:55 +0000

 On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:05:03PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 >  
 >  Yes, but it needs to be able to parse both -s and -s <arg> for example
 >  which you cannot do with getopt. What does posix say about this?
 
 Posix doesn't allow options to have optional arguments.
 
 	David
 
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