On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:06:52AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > You'd start off with argv[] looking like [ "foo" "-b" "-a" ] and then > after calling parse_options with that, depending on whether it has > PARSE_OPT_CONTINUE_ON_UNKNOWN or not, you'd either end up with the "-a" > handled (and argv[] now being just [ "foo" "-b" ]), or if you have How can that be correct, if you don't know whether "-b" takes an argument? > PARSE_OPT_STOP_ON_UNKNOWN then parse_options() would return without having > done anything, and expecting you to handle the unknown option first and > then restarting the argument parsing. That is the only thing that makes sense to me, since the command line has to be parsed left-to-right (because the syntactic function of an element relies on the semantics of the element to its left). -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
