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Document BSD behavior of accepting '-' within optstring as long as

it is not the fist character of optstring (since that would conflict
with GNU semantics).
Update the bit on "W;" within optstring when called as getopt (not
getopt_long) to current reality.
OPENBSD_3_3
millert 22 years ago
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src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt_long.3 View File

@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $OpenBSD: getopt_long.3,v 1.3 2002/12/05 21:02:19 millert Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: getopt_long.3,v 1.4 2002/12/10 21:51:38 millert Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: getopt_long.3,v 1.11 2002/10/02 10:54:19 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993
@ -241,6 +241,27 @@ arguments to option '\e1'.
honors POSIXLY_CORRECT and stops at the first non-option.
.El
.It Li o
handling of - within the option string (not the first character).
.Bl -tag -width "OpenBSD"
.It Li GNU
treats a
.Ql -
on the command line as a non-argument.
.It Li OpenBSD
a
.Ql -
within the option string matches a
.Ql -
(single dash) on the command line.
This functionality is provided for backward compatibility with
programs, such as
.Xr su 1 ,
that use
.Ql -
as an option flag.
This practice is wrong, and should not be used in any current development.
.El
.It Li o
handling of :: in options string in presence of POSIXLY_CORRECT:
.Bl -tag -width "OpenBSD"
.It Li Both
@ -280,10 +301,9 @@ handling of -W with W; in option string in getopt (not getopt_long):
.It Li GNU
causes a segfault.
.It Li OpenBSD
returns \-1, with optind pointing past the argument of -W
(as if `-W arg' were `--arg', and thus '--' had been found).
.\" How should we treat W; in the option string when called via
.\" getopt? Ignore the ';' or treat it as a ':'? Issue a warning?
no special handling is done;
.Dq W;
is interpreted as two separate options, neither of which take an argument.
.El
.It Li o
setting of optarg for long options without an argument that are


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