Hello, `man 1 getopt' describes the -n/--name option as follows:
| The name that will be used by the getopt(3) routines when it | reports errors. Note that errors of getopt(1) are still reported | as coming from getopt. But the -n option isn't honored: $ /usr/bin/getopt -n myprog -o abc -- -x getopt: unknown option -- x -- $ LANG=C LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/getopt --version getopt from util-linux 2.21 I tested under Debian Squeeze (getopt from util-linux 2.17.2) to see that I did understand the description right: $ /usr/bin/getopt -n myprog -o abc -- -x myprog: invalid option -- 'x' -- Sincerely, Mike Dornberger PS: Please Cc: me on replies since I'm not subscribed to the list. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
