From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Question about getopt in Cygwin32
6 Feb 1998 06:09:52 -0800
Message-ID: <EnyMvw.25B.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@bbc.com>
References: <199802060311 DOT TAA23947 AT rtl DOT cygnus DOT com>
Reply-To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com
To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

In article <199802060341 DOT WAA20238 AT subrogation DOT cygnus DOT com>,
Ian Lance Taylor  <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>   From: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
>   Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:11:33 -0800 (PST)
>
>   And after my latest change, they aren't.  Should we include a version of
>   getopt in libcygwin.a?  What about in cygwin.dll as an exported
>   function?
>
>I don't think we should include getopt in cygwin.dll.  getopt
>communicates using several variables--optind, opterr, etc.--and DLLs
>do not provide convenient access to variables.
>
>If we did put getopt in cygwin.dll, we would have to fix up the getopt
>header file to make the right happen by default.

I assume that's why getopt was put in libcygwin.a rather than in the .dll
to begin with.

I was surprised to find that getopt() doesn't show up in any file in my
include area.  Am I missing something?

If cygwin.dll is supposed to mimic a libc.so then I think getopt should
be a part of it.  There are several time related variables being
exported already using the "normal" #define var (*__imp_var) method.  I
don't see any reason why getopt couldn't use the same technique -- much
as I hate it.
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