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[PATCH v2 07/20] parse-options: clarify the limitations of PARSE_OPT_NODASH

From: SZEDER Gábor <hidden>
Date: 2022-08-19 16:33:37
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

Update the comment documenting 'struct option' to clarify that
PARSE_OPT_NODASH can only be an argumentless short option; see
51a9949eda (parseopt: add PARSE_OPT_NODASH, 2009-05-07).

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <redacted>
---
 parse-options.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/parse-options.h b/parse-options.h
index 591df64191..8cbfc7e8bf 100644
--- a/parse-options.h
+++ b/parse-options.h
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ typedef enum parse_opt_result parse_opt_ll_cb(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *ctx,
  *				is last on the command line. If the option is
  *				not last it will require an argument.
  *				Should not be used with PARSE_OPT_OPTARG.
- *   PARSE_OPT_NODASH: this option doesn't start with a dash.
+ *   PARSE_OPT_NODASH: this option doesn't start with a dash; can only be a
+ *		       short option and can't accept arguments.
  *   PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP: says that argh shouldn't be enclosed in brackets
  *				(i.e. '<argh>') in the help message.
  *				Useful for options with multiple parameters.
-- 
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