On Sun, Dec 07, 2025 at 03:59:50PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

Hi Branden,

On Sun, Dec 07, 2025 at 08:46:03AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:

quoted

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

Ughhh, this page is too crowded already.  I'll split the _long* variants
into their own separate page.

I'll ping you once that's done, so that you can rebase this patch.

Done.


Cheers,
Alex

Have a lovely day!
Alex

quoted

 .BR getopt_long_only ()
 is like
 .BR getopt_long (),
-- 
2.30.2

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