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[13:16]<peelz> Does the use of long arguments using a single hyphen delimiter (e.g. 'kill -TERM') go against POSIX standards?
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[15:32]<@BC_Programming> peelz: Yes and no. Posix doesn't have command line arguments as part of the standard but it does suggest a convention
[15:32]<@BC_Programming> and -TERM would under that convention be the same as -T -E -R -M
[15:32]<@BC_Programming> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html
[15:37]<peelz> BC_Programming: what conventions does the 'kill' tool follow then--if any?
[15:38]<peelz> I mean, the it seems to use both short and long options (e.g. -s, --signal) while also having odd options, namely -TERM, -SIGKILL, -KILL, -9, -1, etc.
[15:38]<peelz> * the kill tool seems
[15:40]<@BC_Programming> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/kill.html Looks like maybe "XBD Syntax guidelines"
[15:40]<@BC_Programming> except that links to the same page
[15:41]<peelz> Hah.
[15:42]<peelz> I'm inquiring about these conventions as I happen to be designing an argument-parser library.
[15:43]<peelz> I'm kind of weighing the benefits of implementing support for those weird options... would you say this syntax/style is rather common?
[15:46]<@BC_Programming> No idea at this point- either I'm misreading the information there or Kill doesn't conform to the POSIX conventions for arguments, despite specifically saying it does and linking to them, weird
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[15:55]<peelz> BC_Programming: Hmm. Alright then. Looks like some developers loosely adhere to the conventions for whatever reason. I think I'll just stick to the most straightforward approach and not support weird syntax variants.
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