[PATCH] man/man3/getopt.3: Assist getopt_long() users
From: G. Branden Robinson <hidden>
Date: 2025-12-07 14:46:08
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Throw a bone to users of this function who need to report (in a diagnostic message, for instance) the identity of an invalid long option name. Signed-off-by: "G. Branden Robinson" <redacted> --- man/man3/getopt.3 | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/man3/getopt.3 b/man/man3/getopt.3
index 8495719af..432ea1252 100644
--- a/man/man3/getopt.3
+++ b/man/man3/getopt.3@@ -300,6 +300,12 @@ .SS getopt_long() and getopt_long_only() points to a variable which is set to the index of the long option relative to .IR longopts . .P +Its analogue to +.BR getopt ()'s +.I optopt +is +.RI \[lq] "argv[(optind \- 1)]" \[rq]. +.P .BR getopt_long_only () is like .BR getopt_long (),
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