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

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 11:30:01 EST 2006


On 2/1/06, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 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:
[bash output cut]

  Um, maybe I'm missing the obvious, how does that establish whether
providing getopt as a shell feature is a POSIX standard or a GNU
extension?  :)

  I know getopt(3) is part of the POSIX standard library, but that's
not what I'm talking about.

-- Ben



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