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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 index 03a63ab..76ed7d5 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: getopt.3,v 1.31 2003/09/23 10:26:54 wiz Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: getopt.3,v 1.34 2014/06/05 22:09:50 wiz Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" @(#)getopt.3 8.5 (Berkeley) 4/27/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 27, 1995 +.Dd June 5, 2014 .Dt GETOPT 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -65,6 +65,17 @@ The option string may contain the following elements: individual characters, and characters followed by a colon to indicate an option argument is to follow. +If an individual character is followed by two colons, then the +option argument is optional; +.Va optarg +is set to the rest of the current +.Va argv +word, or +.Dv NULL +if there were no more characters in the current word. +This is a +.Nx +extension. For example, an option string .Li \&"x" recognizes an option |
