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deraadt@ objects to the caveat remark, so remove it.

OPENBSD_3_1
miod 22 years ago
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@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\" .\"
.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.15 2002/02/23 19:50:01 miod Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.16 2002/02/23 19:54:29 miod Exp $
.\" .\"
.Dd April 19, 1994 .Dd April 19, 1994
.Dt GETOPT 3 .Dt GETOPT 3
@ -192,16 +192,6 @@ The
.Fn getopt .Fn getopt
function appeared in function appeared in
.Bx 4.3 . .Bx 4.3 .
.Sh CAVEATS
Some software use the very bad practice of affecting the return value of
.Fn getopt
to a
.Ft char
variable.
On platforms where
.Ft char
is unsigned by default, a comparison of this variable to \-1 to detect the
end of the argument list will never succeed.
.Sh BUGS .Sh BUGS
The The
.Fn getopt .Fn getopt


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