Re: [ALTERNATE PATCH] Add a simple option parser.

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On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:25:07PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The option parser takes argc, argv, an array of struct option
> and a usage string.  Each of the struct option elements in the array
> describes a valid option, its type and a pointer to the location where the
> value is written.  The entry point is parse_options(), which scans through
> the given argv, and matches each option there against the list of valid
> options.  During the scan, argv is rewritten to only contain the
> non-option command line arguments and the number of these is returned.
> 
> Aggregation of single switches is allowed:
>   -rC0 is the same as -r -C 0 (supposing that -C wants an arg).

I like options aggregation, but I'm not sure aggregating option arguments
is a good idea... I can't even think of an application that does it.

Mike
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