Malte Forkel wrote:
> The example init script init.d.lsb.ex provided by dh-make 0.46 contains
> this call to start_daemon:
> start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
> This always passes "--" as first argument to my daemon. Wouldn't
> start_daemon -p $PIDFILE -- $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS
> be the proper call?
It does seem that way to me too.
> I haven't found a reference to "--" in the LSB init function
> documentation, but the implementation of start_daemon in
> /lib/lsb/init-function (from lsb-base) handles "--" explicitly. The use
> of "--" is documented in bash(1) though. Is this a convention? What
> status has it?
It was a convention and is now a standard.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap12.html#tag_12_02
Guideline 10:
The argument -- should be accepted as a delimiter indicating the
end of options. Any following arguments should be treated as
operands, even if they begin with the '-' character. The --
argument should not be used as an option or as an operand.
It marks the end of option argument processing. Subsequent arguments
should not be treated as options even if they start with a dash. This
enables processing of files that begin with a dash. Like this for
example:
$ touch ./--help
$ rm -f -- --help
Bob
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