misc/59533: whois not parsing queries correctly (not logically anyway)

[Andy Farkas]

Bill Fumerola wrote:

> Synopsis: whois not parsing queries correctly (not logically anyway)
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: billf
> State-Changed-When: Thu Nov 20 22:43:42 PST 2003
> State-Changed-Why:
> from getopt(3):
>
> ``The interpretation of options in the argument list may be cancelled by
> the option `--' (double dash) which causes getopt() to signal the end
> of argument processing and return -1.''

Erm, the OP said:

> How-to-repeat:
>
>    whois -r "-i origin AS5617"

I don't see any double dash. Please explain.

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        Andy Farkas
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   Speednet Communications
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