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From: "Daniel Cegiełka" <daniel.cegielka@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: better compatibility with bsd getopt()
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:32:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPLrYETtdr+O5odZcnRzbnjiLkMpRMdV-tGsQT7ZwZ9d_OcD7w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120930211329.GP254@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

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2012/9/30 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>:

>> OpenBSD solves gnu reset option in this way:
>>
>>       /*
>>        * XXX Some GNU programs (like cvs) set optind to 0 instead of
>>        * XXX using optreset.  Work around this braindamage.
>>        */
>>       if (optind == 0)
>>               optind = optreset = 1;
>
> Except the BSD way is the braindamaged one because it violates the
> namespace. The GNU way simply defines something that was previously
> undefined by the standard without affecting the namespace.
>
> If needed, I think it's possible to support both, with some weak
> symbol hacks...

sample solution for gnu/bsd getopt() - of course this patch needs this
weak symbol hacks...

Daniel

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diff -urN musl.orig/include/getopt.h musl/include/getopt.h
--- musl.orig/include/getopt.h	Sun Sep 30 21:20:38 2012
+++ musl/include/getopt.h	Sun Sep 30 21:23:14 2012
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 int getopt(int, char * const [], const char *);
 extern char *optarg;
-extern int optind, opterr, optopt;
+extern int optind, opterr, optopt, optreset;
 
 struct option
 {
diff -urN musl.orig/src/misc/getopt.c musl/src/misc/getopt.c
--- musl.orig/src/misc/getopt.c	Sun Sep 30 21:20:38 2012
+++ musl/src/misc/getopt.c	Sun Sep 30 21:22:57 2012
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 
 char *optarg;
-int optind=1, opterr=1, optopt;
+int optind=1, opterr=1, optopt, optreset=0;
 static int optpos;
 
 int getopt(int argc, char * const argv[], const char *optstring)
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@
 	int k, l;
 	char *optchar;
 
+	if (!optind)
+		optind = optreset = 1;
+	if (optreset) {
+		optreset = 0;
+		optind = 1;
+	}
 	if (optind >= argc || !argv[optind] || argv[optind][0] != '-' || !argv[optind][1])
 		return -1;
 	if (argv[optind][1] == '-' && !argv[optind][2])

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-30 21:32 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
2012-09-30 21:18     ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-09-30 21:13       ` Rich Felker
2012-09-30 21:32         ` Daniel Cegiełka [this message]
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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