Using getopt to parse multi-argument options

[Henry Spencer]

In article <3141 at ttrdc.UUCP> levy at ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>Actually, what Roy had in mind IS possible.  Yes it violates the syntax
>standard, but if one is masochistic enough to WANT that, it's doable through
>suitable abuse of optind...

This is not portable; it assumes a specific implementation of getopt.
Unless things have changed, the getopt(3) documentation makes no promise
that user changes to optind will be reflected back into getopt's innards.

It probably works in the existing implementations, but that's not the
same thing.
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