Phil Pennock <exim-dev@???> wrote:
> So this is standard. The general use of -- by commands was in POSIX by
> the mid-1990s, for sure, and SUSv2 was released in 1997, so was
> explicitly mandated for use in expr(1) by then.
>
> So, the change was made *for* FreeBSD.
Thanks - I'll just modify my scripts for the time being until I've
banished FreeBSD4.