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authorSami Kerola2014-12-06 11:47:53 +0100
committerSami Kerola2014-12-08 21:07:00 +0100
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parenttests: add more getopt tests (diff)
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getopt: make nonoptions optstring comment correct
From manual page: 'If the first character of optstring is '-', then each nonoption argv-element is handled as if it were the argument of an option with character code 1.' Reference: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getopt.3.html CC: Frodo Looijaard <frodo@frodo.looijaard.name> Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils')
-rw-r--r--misc-utils/getopt.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/getopt.c b/misc-utils/getopt.c
index c087e4a58..d7918b165 100644
--- a/misc-utils/getopt.c
+++ b/misc-utils/getopt.c
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@
#include "nls.h"
#include "xalloc.h"
-/* NON_OPT is the code that is returned when a non-option is found in '+'
- * mode */
+/* NON_OPT is the code that is returned getopt(3) when a non-option is
+ * found in 'char optstring[]="-abc...";', e.g., it begins by '-' */
#define NON_OPT 1
/* LONG_OPT is the code that is returned when a long option is found. */
#define LONG_OPT 0