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From: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: "." not recognising "--" as the end-of-options
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:11:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081029111153.GH4819@sc.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081028214952.3bd0b64f@pws-pc>

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:49:52PM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
[...]
> > . -- "$1"
> > 
> > if you can't guarantee that "$1" won't start with a "-".
> > 
> > Unfortunately, that code doesn't work with zsh at the moment.
> 
> This happens with builtins that are declared not to have any options.
> I've noticed it before and thought it a bit flakey but been too craven
> to fix it.  We don't document option processing rules anywhere that I
> can find, so sticking with the standard is the only sensible bet.  It's
> probably best to change for all such builtins.
[...]

Thanks Peter!

note that I've filed the same bug report to ash, so I suspect
Net/FreeBSD shs are affected as well, which means we can't use
. -- "$1" portably anyway even though it's POSIX.

Cheers,
Stéphane


      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-29 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-28 16:43 Stephane Chazelas
2008-10-28 21:49 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-10-29 11:11   ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]

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