On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:
> (2) A recent security patch to Solaris 2 supplied a new version of
> /usr/bin/vacation which calls /usr/lib/sendmail with "--" as one of its
> options. Needless to say, the Solaris 2 man page for sendmail makes no
> mention of this option. However, it is commonly used to mean "end of
> options; anything following is an argument" and it is pretty clear that
> that is what is meant here, so I have added it to Exim with that
> meaning.
A lot of the GNU software uses -- to prefix an extended option name,
gnutar is a good example of this, does anyone know if they too use --
as an end of options option ?
-Sean
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