"Michael S. Tsirkin" [off-list ref] writes:
Aren't there other cases where a short option needs to be
converted to a long one?
As I already said, making internal call to libified part (perhaps in
trailer.c) would make this part of conversation a moot point, but in
general you can find
argv_push(&child.args, "cmd2");
if (... some condition that involves variables parsed out ...
... by parse_options() of implementation of cmd1 ...)
argv_push(&child.args, "--option-for-cmd2");
...
run_command(&child);
in implementation of cmd1 that calls out to cmd2.