Re: getopts missing with latest cygwin

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:12:46PM -0600, Erik Nolte wrote:
>Of all ash's disabled features (bg, exp, let, fc, fg, getopts, jobid, jobs,
>local, printf, setvar, unalias, and alias) , only getopts is found in
>/bin/sh for commercial UNIX releases like SunOS/Solaris, HP/UX, SVR[3,4,5],
>IRIX, and AIX.  I would resist enabling features not found in standard
>/bin/sh's, but getopts is standard for every AT&T and Sun derived sh since
>1990.

getopts is undoubtedly a separate program for these.

>What's the process for including the separate process getopts in the next
>cygwin?

Someone has to support it.  DJ, Corinna, and I are already overloaded.  I'm
not taking on new projects to support for Cygwin and I doubt that they are
either.

cgf

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