[PATCH] Cygwin: utils: chattr: Improve option parsing.
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu May 20 17:57:53 GMT 2021
Hi Christian,
On May 20 12:01, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On May 19 17:46, Christian Franke wrote:
> > > ...
> > > $ egrep 'ACL|--r' chattr.c
> > > "Get POSIX ACL information\n"
> > > " -R, --recursive recursively list attributes of directories and
> > > their \n"
> > Oops. Please patch while you're at it...
> > ...
> > > From 865a5a50501f3fd0cf5ed28500d3e6e45a6456de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: Christian Franke<...>
> > > Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 16:24:47 +0200
> > > Subject: [PATCH] Cygwin: utils: chattr: Improve option parsing.
> > >
> > > Interpret '-h' as '--help' only if last argument.
> > Who was the idiot using -h for help *and* the hidden flag? *blush*
> >
> > I'd vote for --help to be changed to -H for the single character
> > option. The help output is very unlikely to be used in scripts,
> > so that shouldn't be a backward compat problem.
>
> New patch attached.
>
> Note that there is now the possibly unexpected (& hidden) behavior that
> 'chattr -h' without file argument clears the hidden attribute of cwd.
Uhm... why? Isn't that easily avoidable?
Thanks,
Corinna
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