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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: Quick question about getopt 
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From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 14:37:23 -0700
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On Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:23:40 -0600 
 Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote:

 > Does POSIX have anything to say on the matter?  Couldn't find anything
 > in my POSIX.1 book, but maybe some of the other POSIX standards reveil
 > more?

*chukcle*  Guess I should read my mail _completely_ before replying... :-)

>From NetBSD's getopt(3):

     The getopt() function was once specified to return EOF instead of -1.
     This was changed by IEEE Std1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'') to decouple
     getopt() from <stdio.h>.

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