2009/228 ls enhancements

[ольга крыжановская]

On 5/1/09, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> Glenn Fowler writes:
>  > there are no posix standards for long options
>  > so it should not be a problem for a long option
>  > with no corresponding short flag to have an optional option value,
>  > of course assuming that the name=value form would be required to
>  > disambuguate when the option value is present
>
>
> POSIX isn't really the issue here for long options.  As you rightly
>  note, POSIX defines only short options (and even at that, leaves some
>  things to the imagination).
>
>  The standards we're discussing here are actually set by ARC case
>  history.  PSARC 1999/645 (CLIP), 1991/031 (getopts), and 2003/035
>  (getopt_long and getopt_clip) are the relevant cases.

Could you publish this material, please?
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