[Nagiosplug-devel] Re: OF nagios plugins

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Thu Jun 9 09:43:48 CEST 2005


Paul L. Allen wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson writes:
> 
>> -W is also reserved by POSIX for implementation extensions, according 
>> to the getopt(3) man page. Plugins using it are broken.
> 
> 
> In which case -W should be added to the list of reserved options in the
> Plugin Developer Guidelines.

Why? I would have thought it fairly obvious that plugins should adhere 
to ANSI, POSIX, SUS and UNIX *prior* to whatever the guidelines says. 
Perhaps I'm wrong. Either way, feel free to patch. ;)


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