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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-09-18 09:29:28 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-09-18 09:29:28 +0000 |
commit | 0fce946bed01b70893658acc188bd388bffa7d2e (patch) | |
tree | 9f9b4cb94113857b9d58e473ce753d4b67cc6ab6 /lib/libc/stdlib | |
parent | 559803894fe88d99043faaaf60bb10b3fb24df85 (diff) |
typos from wiz@netbsd (including one from a PR from Quentin Garnier);
slight sync with NetBSD page;
ok millert@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 | 24 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 index 9b27b70e65d..50b756bfbb4 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.26 2003/09/02 18:24:21 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.27 2003/09/18 09:29:27 jmc Exp $ .\" .Dd December 17, 2002 .Dt GETOPT 3 @@ -47,9 +47,11 @@ The .Fn getopt function incrementally parses a command line argument list .Fa argv -and returns the next known option character. +and returns the next +.Em known +option character. An option character is -.Dq known +.Em known if it has been specified in the string of accepted option characters, .Fa optstring . .Pp @@ -113,7 +115,7 @@ by the option .Ql -- (double dash) which causes .Fn getopt -to signal the end of argument processing and returns \-1. +to signal the end of argument processing and return \-1. When all options have been processed (i.e., up to the first non-option argument), .Fn getopt @@ -134,9 +136,9 @@ it returns If .Fa optstring has a leading -.Sq \: +.Sq \&: then a missing option argument causes -.Sq \: +.Sq \&: to be returned instead of .Sq \&? . In either case, the variable @@ -147,6 +149,8 @@ The function returns \-1 when the argument list is exhausted. .Sh EXAMPLES .Bd -literal -compact +extern char *optarg; +extern int optind; int bflag, ch, fd; bflag = 0; @@ -174,7 +178,7 @@ argv += optind; If the .Fn getopt function encounters a character not found in the string -.Va optstring +.Fa optstring or detects a missing option argument it writes an error message to .Em stderr @@ -184,7 +188,7 @@ Setting .Va opterr to a zero will disable these error messages. If -.Va optstring +.Fa optstring has a leading .Ql \&: then a missing option argument causes a @@ -198,7 +202,7 @@ this is reasonable but reduces the amount of error checking possible. .Xr getopt 1 , .Xr getopt_long 3 , .Xr getsubopt 3 -.Sh EXTENSIONS +.Sh STANDARDS The .Va optreset variable was added to make it possible to call the @@ -223,7 +227,7 @@ This was changed by to decouple .Fn getopt from -.Pa <stdio.h> . +.Aq Pa stdio.h . .Pp A single dash .Pq Ql - |