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

[Tom Buskey]

On 2/1/06, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/1/06, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> > Good point. I'd just like to add that using getopt also means that you
> are
> > providing POSIX compliance.
>
>   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.  :)



Could be.   I used getopt in Ultrix circa 1995, but it was a seperate
program.

Man getops on Solaris says:

"sh
     getopts is a built-in Bourne shell  command"

I wonder how long back that goes.
I'd think it might be easier to trace in ksh too.




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