On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Alexander Joerg Herrmann wrote: > > Well, it's just a matter of adding a check for > > optarg being NULL and > > printing an appropriate message (e.g., > > if (optarg == NULL) { > > fprintf(stderr, "Missing key-value > > separator\n"); > > usage(); > > } > > ). > Yup looks easy but I may better patch the DLL to use
FYI, this has been fixed in the snapshots by Christopher Faylor (which happened between the time I did a "cvs update" and the time I prepared a patch -- go figure). > some kind of fstab file which would it make complete > portable as now I'am sitting in front of a computer > which let's me run bash but not cmd - ahhhh. This has been discussed, and, in fact, is a plan for the future. That was one of the reasons using "mount" was suggested -- no matter where the mounts are stored, "mount" will be guaranteed to do the right thing. > > However, the question is what should getopt's > > behavior be if something > > specified as a "required_argument" is missing? > It sould do the same thing as the long parameter > arguments imo. This was my bug -- the long options specified the argument as required, but the short ones specified it as optional (two colons). Thanks to CGF for fixing it. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/