openbsd/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt_long.3, branch OPENBSD_6_8_BASE

Document how to make getopt_long(3) process arguments in order and stop

2020-01-13T18:05:10+00:00

at the first non-option argument. I had to read source code to figure it out.

Follow style(9) and drop lint /* NOTREACHED */ annotations from

2016-01-04T19:43:13+00:00

the examples. Diff from Juuso Lapinlampi < wub () partyvan ! eu >, thanks! ok schwarze@

Use the fancy .In macro for includes. From Jan Klemkow. ok jmc schwarze

2013-06-05T03:39:23+00:00

tweak for clarity, ok millert@, jmc@

2011-03-21T13:41:50+00:00

Fix PR 6267: recheck POSIXLY_CORRECT each time getopt_long() starts a new

2011-03-05T22:10:11+00:00

argv and don't suppress the handling of leading '-' in optstring when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. Based on patch from Eric Blake. ok and manpage update from millert@, manpage ok jmc@

Correctly escape a literal colon in an enclosure;

2011-01-24T01:50:25+00:00

the \: roff escape is an optional line break.

more wacky macro fixing;

2010-09-19T22:22:13+00:00

from ginsbach@netbsd, -r1.18:

2007-07-03T12:06:07+00:00

Document that getopt_long(3) can and will accept unique abbreviated long option names. This feature has been present since getopt_long(3) was first released in NetBSD 1.5. This is also standard GNU getopt_long(3) behavior. ok millert

convert to new .Dd format;

2007-05-31T19:20:26+00:00

fix some dodgy displays;

2007-02-06T20:07:15+00:00