Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Using getopt to parse multi-argument options
Message-ID: <1989Jan19.192946.15825@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3652@phri.UUCP> <1989Jan16.023712.29002@utzoo.uucp> <3141@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 19:29:46 GMT

In article <3141@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>Actually, what Roy had in mind IS possible.  Yes it violates the syntax
>standard, but if one is masochistic enough to WANT that, it's doable through
>suitable abuse of optind...

This is not portable; it assumes a specific implementation of getopt.
Unless things have changed, the getopt(3) documentation makes no promise
that user changes to optind will be reflected back into getopt's innards.

It probably works in the existing implementations, but that's not the
same thing.
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