FEATURE: -f -f - fork after successful open of fwd port/display/agent

[mouring]

> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:02:37PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:38:40PM -0800, Frank Cusack wrote:
> > > > Comments?
> > > 
> > > "-f -f" is fairly ugly.
> > 
> > Really? I thought it was cute, like -v -v -v, say :)
> 
> Well, I dislike that too. :-)
> 
> > What would you suggest?
> 
> I have no alternate suggestion (other than using GNU-like --long-options).
> 
> > Originally I implemented (locally) this as a -o option and the option
> > name was horrible, "WaitForPortOpenBeforeFork", because I couldn't think
> > of a very short, yet very descriptive option name for this feature.
> > 
> > So after much thought -f -f seemed like the easiest way to add this
> > without polluting the option namespace and without requiring some
> > longish option name.
> 
Four words..

			over
			my
			dead
			body

=)  -f -f does not bother me as long as it is well documented.  However I
hate the --some-command-that-we-may-not-use-offen-but-hell-we-wanted-an-option.

I hate GNU longopt...

- Ben