tech-pkg: Re: textproc/nbsed broken on non-NetBSD systems

Subject: Re: textproc/nbsed broken on non-NetBSD systems
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/01/2005 10:14:01

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:02:20PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On 2005年4月29日, Robert Lillack wrote:
> > Can anybody confirm that nbsed has a somewhat bad behaviour on systems 
> > other than NetBSD when called like this:
> > 
> > 	nbsed 's/a/b/' -x
> > 
> > IMHO '-x' has to be be interpreted as filename _always_, but nbsed is 
> > (why?) inconsistent across different operating systems.
> 
> nbsed just used getopt() in a way that works fine on NetBSD. But GNU
> getopt likes to interpret "-x" as an option even when it appears after
> non-option args.
When I found that, I wondered just where such broken behaviour originated!
> I suggest one or more of the following fixes or workarounds:
5) Add an explicit -- after the options,
	nbsed -- 's/a/b/' -x
	David
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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk