On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 01:46:40PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Stefan Sperling:
> 
> > > getopt(1) is woefully obsolete, let's use getopts:
> > > 
> > > rewrite argument parsing with the POSIX getopts shell built-in
> > 
> > Does this patch aim to allow using test root paths with spaces?
> 
> I just want to replace getopt(1).  Admittedly, that's cosmetic.

Fine with me. OK

> A test root path with spaces breaks because at a rough grep count
> there are 8000+ unquoted uses of $testroot in the scripts.

Ah, so that's why! Thanks for pointing this out.
Something to fix on a rainy day, I suppose :)