ls(1) new command line options '-/' and '-%': CIFS system attributes support [PSARC/2007/394 FastTrack timeout 07/11/2007]

[Joseph Kowalski]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> I don't know why someone tries to mandate that every long option should have
> a short option equivalent. It looks to me as if somebody did use the 
> disadvantages of the Sun getopt() implementation as prototype for some 
> guidelines.
>   
It was to allow all options to be expressible a short options.  By the 
rationale, long-options
are just a EOU for people need mnemonic hints.  (This is in the CLIP 
rationale if anybody
wants to read it or read it beyond a few tables.)

It find it funny that we are asserting that we need a greater option 
space other than
[a-zA-Z0-9]. That's 62 distinct option flags.  We should be very 
red-faced that we
are having this discussion rather than a discussion about well factored 
utilities.

Sigh,...  Poorly considered incremental changes...

At this point, somebody can create "Son of CLIP" if they want.  After 
the discussion
about CLIP it should be obvious incremental additions are not going to 
accepted.  This
was a painful exercise where everyone had a view and, more importantly, 
the concepts
related to each other in ways which aren't obvious. The CLIP cases took 
something
on the order of 4 years to complete and "killed" a number of sponsors.  
Else, please
accept the policy.

- jek3