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Re: AIX rlogind


From: paul () vix com (Paul A Vixie)
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 08:29:13 -0700


the reason some ports of shadow are `bad' and some aren't
is directly related to how the getopt(3) routine works
on that os.  if it allows "-froot" to mean the same as
"-f root", then it's going to be ``buggy''.

i would have sworn that POSIX defines that as correct behaviour for getopt().



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