Re: WANTED: POSIX compatible getopt

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:32:59 +0200
Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by> wrote:

> > On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:20:57 +0200
> > Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by> wrote:
> 
>  >> 1) to be compatible with
>  >>    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap12.html#tag_12_02
> 
> > Ah, right.  These are guidelines only, thus something that does not
> > follow them is not unPOSIXy.
> 
> Not exactly.

By "something" I mean a command line tool.  The bit of the
specification you quote says that a system's implementation of getopt()
must follow the guidelines, not that each application must.

B.