On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Antonis Kanavouras wrote:
-> my C books are too old- no reference to getopt().
-> till today I wrote loops from scratch to manipulate comnd line options
-> ~# man 3 getopt makes me more confused
Try the glibc info pages ( Ctrl -H, I from Emacs, then browse to glibc /
Process Startup / Program Arguments / Parsing Options / )
-> Any simple source files for example ?
->
There is a nice example too. U may find useful some simple option parsing
program sources ( ping , traceroute).
BTW any security FAQ proposes avoiding getopt() but this is hard to
achieve...
Regards,
Marin
"Knowledge is not a crime. Some of its applications are..."
- Unknown hacker
