http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getopt.3.html Hello I noticed that "nsecs = 0;" is not needed in the getopt source code example. GCC gives warning about this variable being initialised. Regards, Jonny -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html