From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 19 10:18:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0624314CB1 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:18:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA41144; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:17:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:17:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Per Lundberg Cc: Alex Zepeda , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: glibc In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Per Lundberg wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > > > It's quite easily argued that depending on a *NON STANDARD* getopt routine > > is a bug. > > I know it isn't standard. But it works well, and is used by a lot of > programs. Perhaps it should have been put in another library than libc, > though. Actually, I'd better suggest this to the GNU people right ahead. If you give me documentation on it, I'll implement it for the BSD libc. It would be nice to go in, perhaps as a weak symbol (to remain compatible with FreeBSD packages including their own getopt.) And don't tell me to look at the getopt long code itself. That stuff is sickening. I just want the [exact] API. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message