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Re: argp OPTION_ARG_OPTIONAL and -short options
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Ulrich Drepper |
Subject: |
Re: argp OPTION_ARG_OPTIONAL and -short options |
Date: |
07 Oct 2001 13:09:26 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.2 (Thelxepeia) |
"J. Jones" <address@hidden> writes:
> The "short option" equivalents of options that accept an optional
> argument don't seem to behave properly. If the argument to --option is
> required, then both -ofoo and -o foo return "foo" as the argument. If
> the argument is defined as optional, only -ofoo will return "foo" as the
> argument.
This is what has to happen. How should the getopt/argp functions
otherwise recognize an optional argument?
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