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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool 5/5] ethtool: Add --version option
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:05:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1298379945.2861.7.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298378228.2211.472.camel@localhost>

Le mardi 22 février 2011 à 12:37 +0000, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 22:16 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> [...]
> > The standard convention is to use -V for short form of version option.
> 
> This is not anywhere near standard.
> 
> $ cp -V
> cp: invalid option -- 'V'
> Try `cp --help' for more information.
> $ bash -V
> bash: -V: invalid option
> [...]
> $ emacs -V
> [opens window]
> $ vim -V
> chdir(/usr/share/vim)
> fchdir() to previous dir
> sourcing "$VIM/vimrc"
> [...looks like that meant 'verbose'...]

Now try with networking tools, many use -V

(As a matter of fact, ethtool -h already is used to display help)

# ping -V
ping utility, iputils-sss20071127
# tc -V
tc utility, iproute2-ss100823
# ssh -V
OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007




  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-22 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-21 19:16 [PATCH ethtool 0/5] Add --version option and fix some bugs in show_usage() Ben Hutchings
2011-02-21 19:17 ` [PATCH ethtool 1/5] ethtool: Split show_usage() into two functions Ben Hutchings
2011-02-21 19:18 ` [PATCH ethtool 2/5] ethtool: Report an error if given an unrecognised option Ben Hutchings
2011-02-21 19:18 ` [PATCH ethtool 3/5] ethtool: Allow for long options with no short option and without a device name Ben Hutchings
2011-02-21 19:18 ` [PATCH ethtool 4/5] ethtool: Indent the no-options usage line consistently with the others Ben Hutchings
2011-02-21 19:19 ` [PATCH ethtool 5/5] ethtool: Add --version option Ben Hutchings
2011-02-22  6:16   ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-02-22 12:37     ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-22 13:05       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-02-22 21:35         ` Jeff Garzik
2011-02-22 21:49           ` Ben Hutchings

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