"Perry Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The getopt_long on Mac and I guess also Linux have been made non- 
> Posix compliant.  They accept options after the non-option argument.   What is
> really disturbing is they alter argv.  I find that somewhat a  bad idea but, I
> guess no one really cares about consistency or  traditions.

You can get the traditional behaviour out of glibc if you set POSIXLY_CORRECT.

One thing to beware of is that patch behaves very strangely with
POSIXLY_CORRECT set though.

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