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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 1996 13:32:16 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        imp@village.org, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Quick question about getopt
Message-ID:  <199609290332.NAA14195@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Given the standards reference, should FreeBSD[*] change getopt to return
>-1 rather than EOF?  I'm inclidned to say yes.  However, there are
>likely reasons for not doing this.

None.  EOF is identical with (-1) on all supported systems, and there
are no complications from EOF being defined in the wrong places.

>[*] If the answer is "yes" then I'll volunteer to make the changes to
>the tree that are needed.

Get them from 4.4Lite2.

Bruce



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