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--- Libc/Libc-1725.40.4/stdlib/FreeBSD/getopt_long.3
+++ Libc/Libc-1353.100.2/stdlib/FreeBSD/getopt_long.3
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" @(#)getopt.3 8.5 (Berkeley) 4/27/95
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd December 24, 2022
+.Dd December 25, 2011
.Dt GETOPT_LONG 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -207,53 +207,12 @@
.Fa val
in the location pointed to by
.Fa flag .
-.Pp
These functions return
.Ql \&:
-if there was a missing option argument and error messages are suppressed,
+if there was a missing option argument,
.Ql \&?
if the user specified an unknown or ambiguous option, and
\-1 when the argument list has been exhausted.
-The default behavior when a missing option argument is encountered is to write
-an error and return
-.Ql \&? .
-Specifying
-.Ql \&:
-in
-.Fa optstr
-will cause the error message to be suppressed and
-.Ql \&:
-to be returned instead.
-.Pp
-In addition to
-.Ql \&: ,
-a leading
-.Ql \&+
-or
-.Ql \&-
-in
-.Fa optstr
-also has special meaning.
-If either of these are specified, they must appear before
-.Ql \&: .
-.Pp
-A leading
-.Ql \&+
-indicates that processing should be halted at the first non-option argument,
-matching the default behavior of
-.Xr getopt 3 .
-The default behavior without
-.Ql \&+
-is to permute non-option arguments to the end of
-.Fa argv .
-.Pp
-A leading
-.Ql \&-
-indicates that all non-option arguments should be treated as if they are
-arguments to a literal
-.Ql \&1
-flag (i.e., the function call will return the value 1, rather than the char
-literal '1').
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width ".Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT"
.It Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
@@ -546,19 +505,3 @@
The implementation can completely replace
.Xr getopt 3 ,
but right now we are using separate code.
-.Pp
-.Nm
-makes the assumption that the first argument should always be skipped because
-it's typically the program name.
-As a result, setting
-.Va optind
-to 0 will indicate that
-.Nm
-should reset, and
-.Va optind
-will be set to 1 in the process.
-This behavior differs from
-.Xr getopt 3 ,
-which will handle an
-.Va optind
-value of 0 as expected and process the first element.