bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

On 2019-02-12 7:00 p.m., Eric Blake wrote:
> On 2/12/19 7:21 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>
> > +  optind = 1;
>
> Why are you doing this in every caller, instead of doing it just once
> inside the body of parse_gnu_standard_options_only(), so that the state
> is left unchanged at optind==1 if there were no options parsed?

That was just an ugly hack.

Here are a more complete patches (both for gnulib and for coreutils).

All existing tests pass (including nohup's exit code)
but I did not yet write new tests for these improvements.

Comments welcomed.
 -assaf

0001-all-detect-help-and-version-more-consistently-FIXME.patch.gz
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gnulib-0001-long-options-add-parse_gnu_standard_options_only.patch.gz
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