From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 19 6: 8:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from leap.innerx.net (leap.innerx.net [38.179.176.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096B015161 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 06:08:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ip194.houston3.tx.pub-ip.psi.net [38.12.169.194]) by leap.innerx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB9E3708B; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 09:06:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA15218; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:07:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:07:13 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: Per Lundberg Cc: Alex Zepeda , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: glibc Message-ID: <19990719080712.A15178@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Per Lundberg on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:58:43PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 |Watch out for off-by-one errors. `---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message