Re: nohup.out placement so inflexible

[Jim Meyering]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Alfred> It is so inflexible because you haven't bothered sending a patch.
>
> I see.  So you all think the concept is great, and doesn't violate any
> standards, etc., so all that is left is writing the code.  I will not
> regret writing the code as the concept approval process is already
> complete?

Yes.
Please call the new option --output=FILE (no short-named option).
If you do this, please also update the documentation:

  - in nohup.c's usage function add a line or two describing
  the new option (this makes it so --help output and the
  generated man/nohup.1 reflect the addition)

  - add a few similar lines in doc/coreutils.texi

Note that nohup.c currently doesn't use getopt_long directly,
but with your addition, it will have to do so.
You should replace the call to parse_long_options with
the boilerplate getopt_long `while'-loop.

Thanks for helping.