Bug#873201: openssh-client: command line parsing with -- between option and non-option arguments completely broken

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Colin Watson dixit:

>I have forwarded your report upstream as

Thanks.

>https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2766.  If you can, please
>(if necessary) create an account on that Bugzilla instance and add

Hm, that bugzilla was not listed on their site either. But for a
drive-by bugreport I’m not very inclined to create an account
somewhere which I’ll forget later anyway.


Vincent Lefevre dixit:

>The ssh manpage doesn't mention the support of "--".

It’s common and POSIX utility syntax, though, *and* it’s apparently
somewhat supported, just in a very broken way.

bye,
//mirabilos
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