Re: [MAN] Fix description of getopts when last argument reached

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Felix Dietrich <felix.dietrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ---
> When I read the getopts description in the man-page I got stumped by the
> following part:
> 
>    getopts optstring var
> 
>        [..]
> 
>        If there are no remaining arguments, getopts will set var to
>        special option, “--”, otherwise, it will set var to “?”
> 
>        [..]
> 
> After I was unable to get getopts to store "--" in var, I asked for help
> on comp.unix.shell [1] where it was pointed out to me that actually the
> POSIX description of getopts [2] does not include a special option "--";
> dash's behaviour of setting var to "?" after the last argument is
> correct and that this is most likely an error in the documention.

Patch applied.  Thanks!
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