On Feb 09 09:49:35, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Feb 2020 17:46:51 +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
>
> > Whenever unistd.h declares getopt(3), it also declares
> > the extern optind and optarg, so files including unistd.h
> > don't need to declare those themselves, right?
>
> Correct. Most of those date back from before optind and optarg
> were defined for you by unistd.h.
But the externs should be mentioned in the manpage, right?
That's the only place they are mentioned before being talked about
in the text; although I suspect that's why people keep declaring them
in source code - it's what SYNOPSIS said.
Jan
