Re: getopt compatibility

ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> Testing for HP-UX from code is not that
> difficult and optreset variable can be tested quite easily in autoconf,
> something like
> 
> static int 
> reset_getopt(void)
> {
> #if hpux
>   optind = 1;
> #else
> #if HAVE_OPTRESET
>   optreset = 1; 
> #endif
>   optind = 0;
> #endif
> }

www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libc/Getopt.htm

Actually, this is going to be much easier than you think.  

1.  tsql appears to be wrong: GNU says "The initial value of this variable
is 1."  Not zero.  
2.  NetBSD, HP/UX, and opengroup.org all say the same thing.  

I tested getopt(3) on a RHEL system; setting optind to 1 caused it to
parse again from the beginning.  

3.  I think it's legal in C to declare 

	extern int optreset;

without ever having:

	int optreset;

so there's no need even to test HAVE_OPTRESET:

	static int 
	reset_getopt(void)
	{
	  optreset = 1; 
	  optind = 1;
	}

which of course means we don't need the funciton at all.  :-)

Regards, 

--jkl