[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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