RHAT bug? /etc/init.d/functions:daemon()

[Michael ODonnell]

> I thought providing getopt *as a shell function* was a GNU
> extension.  Hmmm...  well, 60 seconds of Google work didn't find
> a definitive answer.  :)

You went all the way to Oz when the answer was right in
your own back yard:

 # echo $BASH_VERSION 
 2.05b.0(1)-release
 # type getopts
 getopts is a shell builtin
 # help getopts
 getopts: getopts optstring name [arg]
     Getopts is used by shell procedures to parse positional parameters.

     OPTSTRING contains the option letters to be recognized; if a letter
     is followed by a colon, the option is expected to have an argument,
     which should be separated from it by white space.

     Each time it is invoked, getopts will place the next option in the
     shell variable $name, initializing name if it does not exist, and
     the index of the next argument to be processed into the shell
     variable OPTIND.  OPTIND is initialized to 1 each time the shell or
     a shell script is invoked.  When an option requires an argument,
     getopts places that argument into the shell variable OPTARG.

     getopts reports errors in one of two ways.  If the first character
     of OPTSTRING is a colon, getopts uses silent error reporting.  In
     this mode, no error messages are printed.  If an invalid option is
     seen, getopts places the option character found into OPTARG.  If a
     required argument is not found, getopts places a ':' into NAME and
     sets OPTARG to the option character found.  If getopts is not in
     silent mode, and an invalid option is seen, getopts places '?' into
     NAME and unsets OPTARG.  If a required option is not found, a '?'
     is placed in NAME, OPTARG is unset, and a diagnostic message is
     printed.

     If the shell variable OPTERR has the value 0, getopts disables the
     printing of error messages, even if the first character of
     OPTSTRING is not a colon.  OPTERR has the value 1 by default.

     Getopts normally parses the positional parameters ($0 - $9), but if
     more arguments are given, they are parsed instead.