Bug 165720

Summary: VNC uses non-standard long options
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap>
Component: vncAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Jonathan S. Shapiro 2005-08-11 15:14:33 UTC 
The silly buggers at realvnc.com don't seem to understand how command lines
work. As a transitional solution, I propose that vnc should accept either the
--longoption or -longoption forms interchangeably.

An easy way to do this is to check at the top of the string search against long
options, see if the arg pointer points to a string starting with "--", if so
advance it by one character, and then fall into the current checking code.

Obviously, this is not urgent. It just bugs me.
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2005-08-11 15:29:03 UTC 
You need to report this upstream, but I doubt this will change.  VNC is not a
GNU application.
Comment 2 Jonathan S. Shapiro 2005-08-11 16:23:35 UTC 
You are probably right, but do you happen to know where/how to report it upstream?