[PATCH] getopt.3: remove _<PID>_GNU_nonoption_argv_flags_ description

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Per <https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=bf079e19f50d64aa5e05b5e17ec29afab9aabb20>:
* this was set by bash 2.0 (1996-12)
  (implemented in glibc b07c5668f672125074dd5b0b658145e1544120be)
* it's no longer set by bash 2.01 (1997-06) because it was bad
* glibc disabled this with no way to enable it in 2001-08
  (518a0dd201c48a5c15d73c1919c304a9f8f5e3c1)
* glibc removed it in 2017 bf079e19f50d64aa5e05b5e17ec29afab9aabb20

So this was experienced by people for 5 months at best,
and could remotely be experienced for 3 years
(if you somehow wanted this bad behaviour and added it into your shell),
over 20 years ago. No modern reader (or, frankly, non-modern reader)
has ever used this, or could use it, really.

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 man/man3/getopt.3 | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man3/getopt.3 b/man/man3/getopt.3
index 67c3ec9b3..686862d30 100644
--- a/man/man3/getopt.3
+++ b/man/man3/getopt.3
@@ -318,15 +318,6 @@ .SH ENVIRONMENT
 .B POSIXLY_CORRECT
 If this is set, then option processing stops as soon as a nonoption
 argument is encountered.
-.TP
-.B _<PID>_GNU_nonoption_argv_flags_
-This variable was used by
-.BR bash (1)
-2.0 to communicate to glibc which arguments are the results of
-wildcard expansion and so should not be considered as options.
-This behavior was removed in
-.BR bash (1)
-2.01, but the support remains in glibc.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
 .BR attributes (7).
-- 
2.39.5

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