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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Masahiro Yamada' <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: check uniqueness of basename of modules
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 09:00:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e6999f3d0b349bd86a32a612cff7b4b@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7LNARezpQgcK9O9K3ZFeebMVNroWStno_brvSLadsKXVfm-Q@mail.gmail.com>

From: Masahiro Yamada
> Sent: 15 May 2019 18:55
...
> >     xargs basename -a -- | sort | ...
> 
> Sorry for my ignorance, but could you
> teach me the effect of "--" ?
> 
> I sometimes use "--" as a separator
> when there is ambiguity in arguments
> for example, "git log <revision> -- <path>"
> 
> In this case, what is intended by "--"?

The '--' stops getopt() from parsing any more parameters.
Useful things like 'grep -- -q' which will search for the
string '-q' rather than treating it as a command line option.

This is all made more horrid by a decision by the writers
of glibc getopt() to 'permute' argv[] so that 'options'
can follow 'nonoptions' ie it converts:
	prog file -arg
to
	prog -arg file
The only program the historically allowed 'late' options
was 'rlogin hostname -l username'.
This is just broken.....

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-16  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-15  7:38 Masahiro Yamada
2019-05-15  7:53 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-05-15 16:20   ` Kees Cook
2019-05-15 17:55     ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-05-15 18:38       ` Kees Cook
2019-05-17  3:39         ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-05-16  9:00       ` David Laight [this message]
2019-05-16  9:38         ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-05-15  8:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-15  8:14   ` Greg KH
2019-05-15  8:57     ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-05-15 11:31       ` Greg KH
2019-05-15 11:42         ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-05-15 18:07 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-05-15 18:31   ` Kees Cook
2019-05-17  3:37     ` Masahiro Yamada

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