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9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Martin Cracauer
eec64f7486 Further backouts and changes to the example.
getopt in bourne shell is in fact hard. Maybe perl isn't *that* bad
after all...
1999-04-04 13:49:10 +00:00
Martin Cracauer
0ab2a7ae85 Back out part of previous commit.
Arguments with whitespaces are easy to fix, but in combination with
shell metachars that should not be evaluated it is very hard, probably
impossible to fix without going to a line-oriented solution.

Next time I will believe Henry Spencer when he says "this looks easy
to fix but isn't".
1999-04-04 00:25:39 +00:00
Martin Cracauer
18b3ba267c 1) Fix the case where a shellscript using getopt is called with a
parameter that has space in it, both in getopt.c and in the manpage
   example.

2) Fix the example in the manpage. The set(1) command is required to
   return 0 (POSIX 1003.2, section 3.14.11), so you can't test for
   getopt's exit status like the example did:

  #! /bin/sh
  set -- `getopt abo: $*`
  if test $? != 0  # wrong, tests for set's exit status, which is
                   # always zero, no for getopt(1)'s.

Fixes PR bin/5845, which thought it was getopt's fault, but in fact
the manpage was wrong.

I also updated the example to be more useful and updated the BUGS
section.

PR:		bin/5845
1999-04-03 22:24:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
1c8af87873 compare return value from getopt against -1 rather than EOF, per the final
posix standard on the topic.
1997-03-29 04:34:07 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
0b6471c9a2 Cleanup. Boldfaced dashes didn't print at all, also corrected a few
other mdoc(5) usage errors.

Pointed out by:	kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de (Chris Kukulies)
1996-10-22 21:56:11 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
4a8d02835c Fix a bunch of spelling errors in a bunch of man pages. 1996-01-30 13:52:50 +00:00
Nate Williams
16b2e59175 Added README which explains the copyright status of getopt(1) 1993-07-27 17:24:17 +00:00
Nate Williams
6e6e120d7a There was additional cruft at the bottom on the man page. 1993-07-27 17:08:57 +00:00
Nate Williams
b37b9a6d2d Added getopt(1) from NetBSD 1993-07-26 22:22:37 +00:00