Global variables in system programs

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 10/17/13 6:38 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Hello,
>
> there is another problem: getopt().  This function uses global 
> variables on its own.  Newlib provides a getopt_r() variant, but this 
> seems to be not available on FreeBSD.
>
Can it be ported to FreeBSD?  Maybe under another name and put into 
libutil to avoid standards issues?

-- 
Alfred Perlstein