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--- Libc/Libc-1725.40.4/stdlib/FreeBSD/getopt_long.3
+++ Libc/Libc-498/stdlib/FreeBSD/getopt_long.3
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)getopt.3 8.5 (Berkeley) 4/27/95
-.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt_long.3,v 1.11 2004/03/06 14:47:49 ache Exp $
.\"
-.Dd December 24, 2022
+.Dd April 1, 2000
.Dt GETOPT_LONG 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -130,11 +130,11 @@
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width ".Dv optional_argument" -offset indent -compact
.It Dv no_argument
-no argument to the option is expected
+no argument to the option is expect
.It Dv required_argument
an argument to the option is required
-.It Dv optional_argument
-an argument to the option may be presented
+.It Li optional_argument
+an argument to the option may be presented.
.El
.Pp
If
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
If the
.Fa flag
field in
-.Vt "struct option"
+.Li struct option
is
.Dv NULL ,
.Fn getopt_long
@@ -207,65 +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
-If set, option processing stops when the first non-option is found and
-a leading
-.Ql -
-or
-.Ql +
-in the
-.Fa optstring
-is ignored.
-.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bd -literal -compact
int bflag, ch, fd;
@@ -280,7 +227,7 @@
};
bflag = 0;
-while ((ch = getopt_long(argc, argv, "bf:", longopts, NULL)) != -1) {
+while ((ch = getopt_long(argc, argv, "bf:", longopts, NULL)) != -1)
switch (ch) {
case 'b':
bflag = 1;
@@ -297,7 +244,6 @@
break;
default:
usage();
- }
}
argc -= optind;
argv += optind;
@@ -504,6 +450,18 @@
to current positions) are the same, though.
(We do fewer variable swaps.)
.El
+.Sh ENVIRONMENT
+.Bl -tag -width POSIXLY_CORRECT
+.It Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
+If set, option processing stops when the first non-option is found and
+a leading
+.Ql -
+or
+.Ql +
+in the
+.Ar optstring
+is ignored.
+.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr getopt 3
.Sh HISTORY
@@ -511,9 +469,9 @@
.Fn getopt_long
and
.Fn getopt_long_only
-functions first appeared in the
+functions first appeared in
.Tn GNU
-libiberty library.
+libiberty.
The first
.Bx
implementation of
@@ -536,9 +494,9 @@
.Fx 5.2 .
.Sh BUGS
The
-.Fa argv
+.Ar argv
argument is not really
-.Vt const
+.Dv const
as its elements may be permuted (unless
.Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
is set).
@@ -546,19 +504,3 @@
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.