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Re: GNU standards: What should happen with illegal option?


From: John Darrington
Subject: Re: GNU standards: What should happen with illegal option?
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 17:20:56 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:31:22PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
     
     What happens with an illegal option that the program rejects and
     exits? 

In GNU, we don't use the word "illegal" when talking about erroneous input.
Please use that word only when talking about violations of law.

J'

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