On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:59:15PM +1100, matthew green wrote: > > > > Also a BSD-licensed getopt (and getopt_long) is available in the > NetBSD > > > libc. > > > > But behaves differently to GNU getopt_long, as regards its handling of > > the arguments '-' and '--' > > > > it does? this sounds like a bug. it should be compatible. > > Clearly it would be nice if they were compatible; OTOH persuading > either set of authors that they should use the other set's behaviour > sounds like a loosing battle to me. > > > please tell me the differences; i can probably get the netbsd one > changed. it is *supposed* to be compatible. it was written so that > we would have a getopt_long() that wasn't GPLed. any difference is > a bug and should be treated as such...
As far as I can tell, the main difference is that "-" (bare) is considered illegal in the NetBSD setup. I don't have any easy way to test what the difference in "--" is, though long usage would *imply* that it means "end parsing of all arguments here" in the GNU world. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
