[PATCH] Stop run-time option processing after first "-:" or non-runtime option (was: Re: [PATCH] stop run-time option processing after "--")

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 08:43:52AM +0100, Peter Bex wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 08:40:18AM +0100, felix.winkelmann@bevuta.com wrote:
> > 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 -: "$@"

Here's a patch that implements this proposal.

Cheers,
Peter

0001-Stop-run-time-option-processing-after-or-the-first-n.patch
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