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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-12-29 17:52:49 +0000
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@@ -71,10 +71,29 @@ string can be followed by a colon (@samp{:}) to indicate that it takes a
required argument. If an option character is followed by two colons
(@samp{::}), its argument is optional; this is a GNU extension.
+@code{getopt} has three ways to deal with options that follow
+non-options @var{argv} elements. The special argument @samp{--} forces
+in all cases the end of option scanning.
+
+@itemize @bullet
+@item
+The default is to permute the contents of @var{argv} while scanning it
+so that eventually all the non-options are at the end. This allows
+options to be given in any order, even with programs that were not
+written to expect this.
+
+@item
If the @var{options} argument string begins with a hyphen (@samp{-}), this
is treated specially. It permits arguments that are not options to be
returned as if they were associated with option character @samp{\0}.
+@item
+POSIX demands the following behaviour: The first non-option stops option
+processing. This mode is selected by either setting the environment
+variable @code{POSIXLY_CORRECT} or beginning the @var{options} argument
+string with a plus sign (@samp{+}).
+@end itemize
+
The @code{getopt} function returns the option character for the next
command line option. When no more option arguments are available, it
returns @code{-1}. There may still be more non-option arguments; you