>From manual page: 'If the first character of optstring is '-', then each nonoption argv-element is handled as if it were the argument of an option with character code 1.' Reference: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getopt.3.html CC: Frodo Looijaard <frodo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx> --- misc-utils/getopt.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/misc-utils/getopt.c b/misc-utils/getopt.c index c087e4a..d7918b1 100644 --- a/misc-utils/getopt.c +++ b/misc-utils/getopt.c @@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ #include "nls.h" #include "xalloc.h" -/* NON_OPT is the code that is returned when a non-option is found in '+' - * mode */ +/* NON_OPT is the code that is returned getopt(3) when a non-option is + * found in 'char optstring[]="-abc...";', e.g., it begins by '-' */ #define NON_OPT 1 /* LONG_OPT is the code that is returned when a long option is found. */ #define LONG_OPT 0 -- 2.1.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
