trivial mkpasswd defect

Bernard A Badger bab@vx.com
Wed May 29 11:36:00 GMT 2002



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: Jon LaBadie
> Subject: Re: trivial mkpasswd defect
>
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:14:14AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > mkpasswd reports '?' is a valid help option but fails to accept it.
> >
> > 	$ mkpasswd --help
> > 	Usage: mkpasswd [OPTION]... [domain]
> >
> > 	This program prints a /etc/passwd file to stdout
> >
> > 	Options:
> > 		... snip ...
> > 	   -?,--help               displays this message
> >
> > 	$ mkpasswd -?
> > 	mkpasswd: unknown option -- ?
>
> Thanks.  This will go away in the next version.

I hope you mean that '-?' will work, not that '-?' will be taken out of the
usage.


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/



More information about the Cygwin mailing list