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authorVille Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>2009-10-18 20:40:29 +0300
committerVille Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>2009-10-18 20:40:29 +0300
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Add portability note to long option preference.
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@@ -473,6 +473,10 @@ guidelines in mind:
the same thing and require an argument, offer only --something as a
completion when completing option names starting with a dash, but do
implement required argument processing for all -s, -S, and --something.
+ Note that GNU versions of various standard commands tend to have long
+ options while other userland implementations of the same commands may
+ not have them, and it would be good to have the completions work for
+ as many userlands as possible so things aren't always that simple.
- Do not write to the file-system under any circumstances. This can
create race conditions, is inefficient, violates the principle of