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| author | Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> | 1999-03-19 02:17:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> | 1999-03-19 02:17:38 +0000 |
| commit | ec23315f9b165cd1a759e42bd375b4747b905771 (patch) | |
| tree | c650ee2861360e18c3cf4db6da2f43e0e6489cfa /manual/getopt.texi | |
| parent | d1275afec4c36467edc1da9c0ebcbf54f89ef262 (diff) | |
| download | glibc-ec23315f9b165cd1a759e42bd375b4747b905771.tar.gz | |
1999-03-16 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> cvs/libc-as-990319
* manual/getopt.texi (Using Getopt): Explain "::" in option
string. Reported by Yuri Niyazov <yuricake@geocities.com>.
1999-03-16 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/getopt.texi (Using Getopt): Explain "::" in option
string. Reported by Yuri Niyazov <yuricake@geocities.com>.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual/getopt.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/getopt.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/manual/getopt.texi b/manual/getopt.texi index 8e1102f911..f3934d0cfe 100644 --- a/manual/getopt.texi +++ b/manual/getopt.texi @@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ Normally these values come directly from the arguments received by The @var{options} argument is a string that specifies the option characters that are valid for this program. An option character in this string can be followed by a colon (@samp{:}) to indicate that it takes a -required argument. +required argument. If an option character is followed by two colons +(@samp{::}), its argument is optional; this is a GNU extension. If the @var{options} argument string begins with a hyphen (@samp{-}), this is treated specially. It permits arguments that are not options to be |