[Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] getopt, argp - reentrant getopt interface, argp fixes
James Youngman
jay@excession.spiral-arm.org
Sat Mar 6 10:25:00 GMT 2004
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:43:19PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 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.
It's not about threads, necessarily. Marcus's email described the
scenario where there is a need to execute getopt() before a call to
getopt() in the current (and perhaps only) thread has returned.
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