From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 28 20:52:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA22928 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 20:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA22901 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 20:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id UAA16816 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 20:51:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA01624; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 23:50:03 -0400 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 23:50 EDT Received: from lakes.water.net (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.water.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA16465; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 21:09:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.water.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA00302; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 21:09:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 21:09:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199609290109.VAA00302@lakes.water.net> To: imp@village.org, ponds!FreeBSD.org!hackers@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: Quick question about getopt Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > NetBSD's getopt returns -1, while FreeBSD documents it as returning > EOF. NetBSD's appears to be the same as 4.4 lite 2. I was curious as > to why the difference between the two existed. The CVS tree is > unenlightening when I asked it for a revision history. Hmmm.... I don't mean to point out what may be the obvious, but isn't EOF == -1? - Dave R. -