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From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	Siddhesh Poyarekar via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] manual: Clarify that abbreviations of long options are allowed
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 08:26:44 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8b872a2-b791-4359-47b4-7e7832fbc884@sourceware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ilqnf4pr.fsf@igel.home>

On 03/05/2022 13:06, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Mai 03 2022, Siddhesh Poyarekar via Libc-alpha wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/manual/getopt.texi b/manual/getopt.texi
>> index 5485fc4694..e58283ab88 100644
>> --- a/manual/getopt.texi
>> +++ b/manual/getopt.texi
>> @@ -250,7 +250,8 @@ option, and stores the option's argument (if it has one) in @code{optarg}.
>>   
>>   When @code{getopt_long} encounters a long option, it takes actions based
>>   on the @code{flag} and @code{val} fields of the definition of that
>> -option.
>> +option.  The option name may be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is
>> +unique or is an exact match for some defined option.
> 
> If it's an exact match, it isn't an abbreviation?
> 

So just the following?

The option name may be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is unique.

Thanks,
Siddhesh

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-04  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-03  4:57 Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-05-03  5:13 ` Florian Weimer
2022-05-03  7:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-05-04  2:56   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar [this message]
2022-05-04  7:38     ` Andreas Schwab

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