summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/src/stat.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'src/stat.c')
-rw-r--r--src/stat.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/stat.c b/src/stat.c
index 0b07dab7f..0124c545e 100644
--- a/src/stat.c
+++ b/src/stat.c
@@ -1039,9 +1039,13 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
terse = true;
break;
- case 'Z': /* FIXME: remove in 2010, warn in mid 2008 */
- /* Ignored, for compatibility with distributions
- that implemented this before upstream. */
+ case 'Z': /* FIXME: remove in 2010 */
+ /* Ignore, for compatibility with distributions
+ that implemented this before upstream.
+ But warn of impending removal. */
+ error (0, 0,
+ _("the --context (-Z) option is obsolete and will be removed\n"
+ "in a future release"));
break;
case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;