[OpenAFS] long style command options

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:16:54 -0700


Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net> writes:

> I noticed that new users to OpenAFS tend to be a bit surprised when
> command options cannot be prefixed with two dashes.  For example, permit
> 'vos listvol --server' in addition to 'vos listvol -server ...'.

> This is strictly a cosmetic change, but one that many people have become
> accustomed to.  Would there be any objection to such a feature change?
> One thing that comes to mind, would be bash command completion scripts
> would need to be updated, if any are in use.

I'm in favor of this change.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>