Re: [PATCH] stop run-time option processing after "--"

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 08:40:18AM +0100, felix.winkelmann@bevuta.com wrote:
> > Of course.  In fact, I think it would make more sense to simply tell the
> > runtime options parser to stop after the first non-"-:"-prefixed
> > argument.  That makes runtime argument stuffing harder and allows it
> > to play nice with _any_ option parser, and makes the "--" behaviour
> > automatically work if the program already handles getopt-style options.
> 
> That's another idea. Backwards compatibility is from now on
> fucked anyway, so let's try to find somethin simple and sensible.

Then we should do both.  I.e., have -: to explicitly tell it to stop
parsing (and have that dropped from the command-line-options) and
stop at the first argument.  The -: would be in situations where
a script just passes on all its arguments, like

./my-program -: "$@"

Cheers,
Peter

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