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Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
> On Sun, 2018-12-16, rbowman wrote:
[...]
>> There are several ports on CodeProject or Github for C, C++, and C#. 
>> Of all the POSIX functions that's one that is really missed. We have a 
>> lot of legacy code and whether it's  "-pfoo" or "-p foo" depends on who 
>> wrote it.
>
> I think I'm missing some context, but normally in Unix, those two are
> synonyms.

It depends.  "-pfoo" can be equivalent either to "-p foo" or to
"-p -f -o -o", depending on how the 'p' option was defined in the
optstring argument passed to the getopt() function.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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