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Re: Shouldn't getopt_long() return : here?
"Charles Wilson" wrote:
> Mikael wrote:
>
>> const char *short_options = "";
>
> This is your problem. You need to have ':' as the first character in
> short_options, if you want the behavior you describe. (Also, if you plan
> to handle errors -- including printing the error message yourself -- you
> need to set the global variable opterr to 0)
>
> So, you need
> const char *short_options = ":";
> /* opterr = 0; */ /* maybe */
>
> --
> Chuck
>
Thanks Mr Wilson. I need to find a better reference it seems or maybe I'm
too stupid to read the online man pages, lol.
/ Mikael
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