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Re: getopt required_argument (Was Re: regtool - 1.8 - Core dump)


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Alexander Joerg Herrmann wrote:

> > Well, it's just a matter of adding a check for
> > optarg being NULL and
> > printing an appropriate message (e.g.,
> >           if (optarg == NULL) {
> >             fprintf(stderr, "Missing key-value
> > separator\n");
> >             usage();
> >           }
> > ).
> Yup looks easy but I may better patch the DLL to use

FYI, this has been fixed in the snapshots by Christopher Faylor (which
happened between the time I did a "cvs update" and the time I prepared a
patch -- go figure).

> some kind of fstab file which would it make complete
> portable as now I'am sitting in front of a computer
> which let's me run bash but not cmd - ahhhh.

This has been discussed, and, in fact, is a plan for the future.  That was
one of the reasons using "mount" was suggested -- no matter where the
mounts are stored, "mount" will be guaranteed to do the right thing.

> > However, the question is what should getopt's
> > behavior be if something
> > specified as a "required_argument" is missing?
> It sould do the same thing as the long parameter
> arguments imo.

This was my bug -- the long options specified the argument as required,
but the short ones specified it as optional (two colons).  Thanks to CGF
for fixing it.
	Igor
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