On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 04:13:09PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 08.01.2019 um 15:51 hat Eric Blake geschrieben: > > On 1/8/19 6:16 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: > > > Unconditionally setting optind = 1 looks fine. I would, however, quote a > > > different part of the glibc man page (in addition or instead of the > > > paragraph you already quoted): > > > > > > The variable optind is the index of the next element to be > > > processed in argv. The system initializes this value to 1. The > > > caller can reset it to 1 to restart scanning of the same argv, or > > > when scanning a new argument vector. > > > > > > This makes it pretty clear that optind = 1 is fine for our case with > > > glibc. The FreeBSD man page still suggests that we need optreset = 1, so > > > I suppose we'd end up with something like: > > > > > > ... > > > optind = 1; > > > #ifdef __FreeBSD__ > > > optreset = 1; > > > #endif > > > > If you really want to set optreset for BSD systems, I'd do a configure > > probe for whether optreset exists, and if so set it for ALL platforms > > that have optreset, not just for __FreeBSD__. (That, and checkpatch.pl > > will gripe if you don't do it that way). > > > > But I'm leaning towards not bothering with optreset UNLESS someone > > proves they have a case where it actually matters. > > I don't mind either way as long as it works. Using optreset would be > following the spec by the letter. > > In fact, I had already applied this patch because it's correct even if > possibly incomplete, depending on your interpretation, but I decided to > reply instead because the commit message didn't really describe that > optreset = 1 is correct for glibc, but that optreset = 0 is necessary in > some other case (which is irrelevant here). So the commit message was my > main point.
I have tested it[1] on: Linux, glibc 2.28 FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE OpenBSD 6.4 Interestingly OpenBSD getopt works in this respect the same way as Linux, so it doesn't need any fix. It's only FreeBSD which needs the fix. Rich. [1] "it" being v2 here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-01/msg00189.html -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org