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Re: nohup.out placement so inflexible
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: nohup.out placement so inflexible |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:08:43 +0100 |
Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Alfred> It is so inflexible because you haven't bothered sending a patch.
>
> I see. So you all think the concept is great, and doesn't violate any
> standards, etc., so all that is left is writing the code. I will not
> regret writing the code as the concept approval process is already
> complete?
Yes.
Please call the new option --output=FILE (no short-named option).
If you do this, please also update the documentation:
- in nohup.c's usage function add a line or two describing
the new option (this makes it so --help output and the
generated man/nohup.1 reflect the addition)
- add a few similar lines in doc/coreutils.texi
Note that nohup.c currently doesn't use getopt_long directly,
but with your addition, it will have to do so.
You should replace the call to parse_long_options with
the boilerplate getopt_long `while'-loop.
Thanks for helping.