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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:17:36 -0400
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Subject: Re: getopts missing with latest cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <1001010143632.AA82047.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu>; from chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:36:32AM -0400

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:36:32AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> FYI, getopts can also be a separate program although we don't supply it
>> with cygwin, currently.
>
>No, it can't.  A separate program cannot propagate the changes to
>$OPTIND and $OPTARG back to the parent shell.

Btw, I based my assertion that it can be used as a separate program on this:

% ls -l /usr/bin/getopts
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin         1518 Jul 25  1995 /usr/bin/getopts

I have no idea how it actually is used with sh on this system, though.

cgf

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