From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: better compatibility with bsd getopt()
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:00:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120930210013.GO254@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5068B362.5070408@barfooze.de>
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:02:26PM +0200, John Spencer wrote:
> On 09/30/2012 10:30 PM, Daniel Cegiełka wrote:
> >http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getopt&sektion=3
> >
> >regards,
> >Daniel
> an application that relies on non-posix getopt behaviour should come
> with a configure check and use an alternate impl if the getopt
> detected is not compatible.
> almost any program does so already, but for those that don't (like
> iptables) you can use https://github.com/rofl0r/gnu-getopt (tarball
> available on sabotage mirror, or in downloads section of the page).
> this bundles the netbsd getopt into a standalone library that can
> easily be linked to programs.
If the only need is option resetting, I think we can handle that
without any cost, and avoid linking in duplicate code to meet
applications' needs.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-30 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-30 20:30 Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-30 20:28 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-30 21:02 ` John Spencer
2012-09-30 21:00 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2012-09-30 21:18 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-30 21:13 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-30 21:32 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-30 23:53 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-30 23:54 ` Rich Felker
2012-10-01 0:03 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-30 21:06 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-30 21:22 ` John Spencer
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