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Bugtraq archives for 2nd quarter (Apr-Jun) 1994: Re: AIX rlogind

Re: AIX rlogind

Paul A Vixie (paulvix.com)
Mon, 23 May 1994 08:29:13 -0700 

> the reason some ports of shadow are `bad' and some aren't
> is directly related to how the getopt(3) routine works
> on that os.  if it allows "-froot" to mean the same as
> "-f root", then it's going to be ``buggy''.

i would have sworn that POSIX defines that as correct behaviour for getopt().