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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:09:54 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: Shouldn't getopt_long() return : here?
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Mikael wrote:

>    const char *short_options = "";

This is your problem.  You need to have ':' as the first character in 
short_options, if you want the behavior you describe.  (Also, if you 
plan to handle errors -- including printing the error message yourself 
-- you need to set the global variable opterr to 0)

So, you need
     const char *short_options = ":";
     /* opterr = 0; */ /* maybe */

--
Chuck

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