[hacknews] getopt

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (08/07/84)

Fixed a subtle bug in getopt(3):  it did not check for the case of an
argument-wanting option appearing at the very end of the argument list.
This is definitely an error, and now produces a message.  The old code
actually gave back a NULL optarg.  Getopt(1) has been compiled to pick
up the fix.  This probably isn't a sufficiently serious problem to
warrant global recompilations.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (10/23/84)

The getopt(3) routine has been modified to use warning(3) to print its
messages, to centralize decisions on message format.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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