[PATCH] getopt,argp - reentrant getopt interface, argp fixes

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Wed Mar 3 22:43:00 GMT 2004


Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> 1. Add new reentrant interfaces for getopt (getopt_r, getopt_long_r,
>    getopt_long_only_r) and supporting data type (struct getopt_data)
>    and macro (GETOPT_DATA_INITIALIZER).

No, this is ridiculous.  If a program takes command line options parse
them before creating threads or do it always only from one thread.  This
is overkill at the most ludicrous level.

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