Re: swapon: fix -d short option

[Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014, at 12:38, Karel Zak wrote:
> Maybe we can add something like
> 
>      Note that the optional policy argument cannot be separated from the -d option by a space, 

It shouldn't be needed to mention this.  It is just common sense that
when an option argument is optional, you cannot separate it from the
option itself by any whitespace because then the parsing cannot decide
whether the thing is the optional option argument or simply another
plain argument.

>      the correct form is for example '-d=pages'.

Another correct form is '-dpages'.  For the short forms of the options
the '=' is not required.

Benno

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