New getopt.c has different behavior -- should it?

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
> >
> >This is one of the GNUism's that I'm very neutral on. As for the
mailing
> >list, I think we can count on one hand - in unary - the number of
folk
> >that aren't on the dev list, that run strace. So I don't think there
> >will be much traffic :}. (That is, as long as we update the FAQ, the
> >users guide and note in the release notes this change).
>
> I'm not worried about strace.  I was just using that as an example.
> Any application that uses getopt is potentially affected.

Oh. Well unless you are planning on rolling it back if 1000's object, I
suggest a quick poll of the userbase, or failing that (presumably due to
time - I'm not able to volunteer the time neeeded to collate responses)
just some clear doco.

Rob