On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Thomas Klausner wrote:

: One of the major improvements this would bring is that in the
: old-style getopt, with an option string of "a:b", a call like
: 	program -a file file2 -b file3
: would not handle '-b' as an option; the program would get
: 	file2 -b file3
: as options it has to parse itself. The new-style getopt by default
: handles this command line like
: 	program -a file -b file2 file3
: and modifies the argv pointers so that the program gets
: 	file2 file3
: as remaining arguments.

This is incorrect behavior for getopt(3).  The first non-option *terminates*
option parsing, and must stay that way when invoked as getopt().

A getopt(3) replacement MUST function IDENTICALLY to getopt(3) as it has
been in libc with option strings that already exist.  No exceptions; this is
ABI compatibility.

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