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Support for optional args separated with whitespace was removed

some time ago--it caused too many problems.
OPENBSD_4_2
millert 17 years ago
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@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.38 2006/03/15 02:50:25 ray Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.39 2007/04/10 20:35:34 millert Exp $
.\"
.Dd December 17, 2002
.Dt GETOPT 3
@ -300,22 +300,6 @@ By default, a single dash causes
to return \-1.
.El
.Pp
Unlike
.Tn GNU
.Fn getopt ,
.Ox
does not permute the argument vector to allow non-options to be
interspersed with options on the command line.
Programs requiring this behavior should use
.Xr getopt_long 3
instead.
Because of this (and unlike
.Tn GNU ) ,
the
.Ox
.Fn getopt
supports optional arguments separated by whitespace.
.Pp
Historic
.Bx
versions of


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