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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-12-03 20:24:31 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-12-03 20:24:31 +0000
commit32b2fe6c59a4cb7e2bb9f55ba1c40fbb184790b8 (patch)
tree79a7d0cfbc9fa00981fdfd034a875121cadfdf3b /lib/libc/stdlib/getopt_long.3
parent98c96abcaea0d78f3f5387712e2bda67af058168 (diff)
GNU-like getopt_long() from NetBSD with changes by me to support
getopt_long_only(). At some point this should replace the BSD getopt(3) but we are not there yet. While I am here add protection from the multiple getopt() definitions due to conflicting standards.
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+.\" $OpenBSD: getopt_long.3,v 1.1 2002/12/03 20:24:30 millert Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: getopt_long.3,v 1.11 2002/10/02 10:54:19 wiz Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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+.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
+.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
+.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+.\" without specific prior written permission.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
+.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" @(#)getopt.3 8.5 (Berkeley) 4/27/95
+.\"
+.Dd April 1, 2000
+.Dt GETOPT_LONG 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm getopt_long ,
+.Nm getopt_long_only
+.Nd get long options from command line argument list
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <getopt.h>
+.Vt extern char *optarg;
+.Vt extern int optind;
+.Vt extern int optopt;
+.Vt extern int opterr;
+.Vt extern int optreset;
+.Ft int
+.Fn getopt_long "int argc" "char * const *argv" "const char *optstring" "struct option *long options" "int *index"
+.Ft int
+.Fn getopt_long_only "int argc" "char * const *argv" "const char *optstring" "struct option *long options" "int *index"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn getopt_long
+function is similar to
+.Xr getopt 3
+but it accepts options in two forms: words and characters.
+The
+.Fn getopt_long
+function provides a superset of of the functionality of
+.Xr getopt 3 .
+.Fn getopt_long
+can be used in two ways.
+In the first way, every long option understood by the program has a
+corresponding short option, and the option structure is only used to
+translate from long options to short options.
+When used in this fashion,
+.Fn getopt_long
+behaves identically to
+.Xr getopt 3 .
+This is a good way to add long option processing to an existing program
+with the minimum of rewriting.
+.Pp
+In the second mechanism, a long option sets a flag in the
+.Fa option
+structure passed, or will store a pointer to the command line argument
+in the
+.Fa option
+structure passed to it for options that take arguments.
+Additionally, the long option's argument may be specified as a single
+argument with an equal sign, e.g.
+.Bd -literal
+myprogram --myoption=somevalue
+.Ed
+.Pp
+When a long option is processed the call to
+.Fn getopt_long
+will return 0.
+For this reason, long option processing without
+shortcuts is not backwards compatible with
+.Xr getopt 3 .
+.Pp
+It is possible to combine these methods, providing for long options
+processing with short option equivalents for some options.
+Less frequently used options would be processed as long options only.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn getopt_long
+call requires a structure to be initialized describing the long
+options.
+The structure is:
+.Bd -literal
+struct option {
+ char *name;
+ int has_arg;
+ int *flag;
+ int val;
+};
+.Ed
+.Pp
+The
+.Fa name
+field should contain the option name without the leading double dash.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fa has_arg
+field should be one of:
+.Bl -tag -width "optional_argument"
+.It Li no_argument
+no argument to the option is expect.
+.It Li required_argument
+an argument to the option is required.
+.It Li optional_argument
+an argument to the option may be presented.
+.El
+.Pp
+If
+.Fa flag
+is not
+.Dv NULL ,
+then the integer pointed to by it will be set to the value in the
+.Fa val
+field.
+If the
+.Fa flag
+field is
+.Dv NULL ,
+then the
+.Fa val
+field will be returned.
+Setting
+.Fa flag
+to
+.Dv NULL
+and setting
+.Fa val
+to the corresponding short option will make this function act just
+like
+.Xr getopt 3 .
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn getopt_long_only
+function behaves identically to
+.Fn getopt_long
+with the exception that long options may start with
+.Sq -
+in addition to
+.Sq -- .
+If an option starting with
+.Sq -
+does not match a long option but does match a single-character option,
+the single-character option is returned.
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+.Bd -literal -compact
+int bflag, ch, fd;
+int daggerset;
+
+/* options descriptor */
+static struct option longopts[] = {
+ { "buffy", no_argument, 0, 'b' },
+ { "fluoride", required_argument, 0, 'f' },
+ { "daggerset", no_argument, &daggerset, 1 },
+ { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
+};
+
+bflag = 0;
+while ((ch = getopt_long(argc, argv, "bf:", longopts, NULL)) != -1)
+ switch(ch) {
+ case 'b':
+ bflag = 1;
+ break;
+ case 'f':
+ if ((fd = open(optarg, O_RDONLY, 0)) == -1)
+ err(1, "unable to open %s", optarg);
+ break;
+ case 0:
+ if (daggerset) {
+ fprintf(stderr,"Buffy will use her dagger to "
+ "apply fluoride to dracula's teeth\en");
+ }
+ break;
+ case '?':
+ default:
+ usage();
+}
+argc -= optind;
+argv += optind;
+.Ed
+.Sh IMPLEMENTATION DIFFERENCES
+This section describes differences to the GNU implementation
+found in glibc-2.1.3:
+.Bl -tag -width "xxx"
+.It Li o
+handling of - as first char of option string in presence of
+environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT:
+.Bl -tag -width "OpenBSD"
+.It Li GNU
+ignores POSIXLY_CORRECT and returns non-options as
+arguments to option '\e1'.
+.It Li OpenBSD
+honors POSIXLY_CORRECT and stops at the first non-option.
+.El
+.It Li o
+handling of :: in options string in presence of POSIXLY_CORRECT:
+.Bl -tag -width "OpenBSD"
+.It Li Both
+GNU and OpenBSD ignore POSIXLY_CORRECT here and take :: to
+mean the preceding option takes an optional argument.
+.El
+.It Li o
+return value in case of missing argument if first character
+(after + or -) in option string is not ':':
+.Bl -tag -width "OpenBSD"
+.It Li GNU
+returns '?'
+.It OpenBSD
+returns ':' (since OpenBSD's getopt does).
+.El
+.It Li o
+handling of --a in getopt:
+.Bl -tag -width "OpenBSD"
+.It Li GNU
+parses this as option '-', option 'a'.
+.It Li OpenBSD
+parses this as '--', and returns -1 (ignoring the a). (Because
+the original getopt does.)
+.El
+.It Li o
+setting of optopt for long options with flag !=
+.Dv NULL :
+.Bl -tag -width "OpenBSD"
+.It Li GNU
+sets optopt to val.
+.It Li OpenBSD
+sets optopt to 0 (since val would never be returned).
+.El
+.It Li o
+handling of -W with W; in option string in getopt (not getopt_long):
+.Bl -tag -width "OpenBSD"
+.It Li GNU
+causes a segfault.
+.It Li OpenBSD
+returns \-1, with optind pointing past the argument of -W
+(as if `-W arg' were `--arg', and thus '--' had been found).
+.\" How should we treat W; in the option string when called via
+.\" getopt? Ignore the ';' or treat it as a ':'? Issue a warning?
+.El
+.It Li o
+setting of optarg for long options without an argument that are
+invoked via -W (W; in option string):
+.Bl -tag -width "OpenBSD"
+.It Li GNU
+sets optarg to the option name (the argument of -W).
+.It Li OpenBSD
+sets optarg to
+.Dv NULL
+(the argument of the long option).
+.El
+.It Li o
+handling of -W with an argument that is not (a prefix to) a known
+long option (W; in option string):
+.Bl -tag -width "OpenBSD"
+.It Li GNU
+returns -W with optarg set to the unknown option.
+.It Li OpenBSD
+treats this as an error (unknown option) and returns '?' with
+optopt set to 0 and optarg set to
+.Dv NULL
+(as GNU's man page documents).
+.El
+.It Li o
+The error messages are different.
+.It Li o
+OpenBSD does not permute the argument vector at the same points in
+the calling sequence as GNU does.
+The aspects normally used by the caller
+(ordering after \-1 is returned, value of optind relative
+to current positions) are the same, though.
+(We do fewer variable swaps.)
+.El
+.Sh ENVIRONMENT
+.Bl -tag -width POSIXLY_CORRECT
+.It Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
+If set, option processing stops when the first non-option is found and
+a leading
+.Sq -
+or
+.Sq +
+in the
+.Ar optstring
+is ignored.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getopt 3
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn getopt_long
+and
+.Fn getopt_long_only
+functions first appeared in GNU libiberty.
+This implementation first appeared in
+.Ox 3.3 .
+.Sh BUGS
+The
+.Ar argv
+argument is not really
+.Dv const
+as its elements may be permuted (unless
+.Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
+is set).
+.Pp
+In a future release, this implementation should completely replace
+.Xr getopt 3 .