libc : getopt.h/unistd.h : getopt : bug in optstring?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 07:20:19PM +0200, Thomas Hieck wrote:
>Hello,
>I tried to use '-' as first character in optstring.
>
>  while( (option = getopt(argc, argv , "-ov:ht")) != -1)
>
>This should handle the the non-option argv-elements as if it were
>arguments with character code 1.
>It works fine, but not in Cygwin. The Cygwin version of getopt ignores
>this flag :-/

AFAICT, this is a GNU getopt specific feature.  Cygwin doesn't use GNU
getopt.

If you want to send a patch to get this working with cygwin, however,
we'll cheerfully accept it.

cgf

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