command line options

[karish]

In article <1988Mar30.233142.2040 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> Does the ANSI C committee address this issue? Probably not, since
>> argument parsing can be quite different on various operating systems.
>> POSIX, perhaps?
>
>This one seems to have fallen down the crack between them, actually.
>It's definitely not in X3J11, and it wasn't in POSIX the last time I looked.

getopt() is, indeed, in POSIX, unless/until the 1003.2 committee
change their collective mind.

Chuck