standards/63173: Patch to add getopt_long_only(3) to libc

[Marius Strobl]

The following reply was made to PR standards/63173; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marius Strobl <marius at alchemy.franken.de>
To: Wartan Hachaturow <wart at tepkom.ru>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: standards/63173: Patch to add getopt_long_only(3) to libc
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:22:54 +0100

 On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:45:16PM +0300, Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
 > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:57:06PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
 > > 
 > > >Category:       standards
 > > >Synopsis:       Patch to add getopt_long_only(3) to libc
 > 
 > Hm. Not to offend in any way -- what standard exactly requires
 > the implementation to support getopt_long_only?
 > Shouldn't it be placed in some other category?
 > 
 
 Non really, except the Linux Standard Base Specification. However, I
 couldn't think of a better matching category and it would be great if
 a standards-guru could have a look at the changes to the unistd.h and
 getopt.h headers and verify that they don't break conformance to
 standards.