Remove some lies

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3
index ce85f678df..d7d69cf15b 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"     $OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.23 2003/06/01 19:27:27 jmc Exp $
+.\"     $OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.24 2003/06/02 03:49:39 millert Exp $
 .\"
-.Dd December 8, 2002
+.Dd December 17, 2002
 .Dt GETOPT 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -85,10 +85,6 @@ contains the index to the next
 argument for a subsequent call
 to
 .Fn getopt .
-The variable
-.Va optopt
-saves the last known option character returned by
-.Fn getopt .
 .Pp
 The variables
 .Va opterr
@@ -137,7 +133,8 @@ encounters a character not found in
 .Fa optstring
 or if it detects a missing option argument,
 it returns
-.Sq ? .
+.Sq ?
+(question mark).
 If
 .Fa optstring
 has a leading
@@ -146,6 +143,9 @@ then a missing option argument causes
 .Sq \:
 to be returned instead of
 .Sq ? .
+In either case, the variable
+.Va optopt
+is set to the character that caused the error.
 The
 .Fn getopt
 function returns \-1 when the argument list is exhausted.
diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt_long.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt_long.3
index 2589bd7b03..f69f72d908 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt_long.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt_long.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"     $OpenBSD: getopt_long.3,v 1.6 2003/05/10 06:48:30 jmc Exp $
+.\"     $OpenBSD: getopt_long.3,v 1.7 2003/06/02 03:49:39 millert Exp $
 .\"     $NetBSD: getopt_long.3,v 1.11 2002/10/02 10:54:19 wiz Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993
@@ -368,6 +368,3 @@ argument is not really
 as its elements may be permuted (unless
 .Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
 is set).
-.Pp
-In a future release, this implementation should completely replace
-.Xr getopt 3 .