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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:07:13 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Per Lundberg <plundis@chaosdev.org>
Cc:        Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: glibc
Message-ID:  <19990719080712.A15178@holly.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907191452050.14185-100000@abraham.chaosdev.org>; from Per Lundberg on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:58:43PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907190051270.4478-100000@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907191452050.14185-100000@abraham.chaosdev.org>

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On Mon, Jul 19, 1999, Per Lundberg wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> 
> > It's quite easily argued that depending on a *NON STANDARD* getopt routine
> > is a bug.
> 
> I know it isn't standard. But it works well, and is used by a lot of
> programs. Perhaps it should have been put in another library than libc,
> though. Actually, I'd better suggest this to the GNU people right ahead.

   What is the point of using GNU-getopt over the standard
getopt other than --foo-bar flags that everyone I know hates?

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|Watch out for off-by-one errors.
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