This one time, at band camp, Matthew Palmer said:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:06:19PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:38:08AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > > Francesco P. Lovergine writes:
> > > > It depends on programs, sometimes the same usage function is used for
> > > > either --help or invalid options.
> > > 
> > > Sure, but the output should still be directed correctly.
> > 
> > Quite difficult if the function is the same. In both cases it uses stderr.
> 
> So you change the program to take a file descriptor into the help-printing
> function, or provide some other means of determining where to send the
> output.

I just recently sent a patch upstream for hdparm for exactly this,
implemented exactly this way, since his previous implementation was a
single function that was reused.  It is trivial to do so, and it is also
the Right Thing, IMHO.
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