Re: Fwd: "getopt.h" no longer part of <stdlib.h>

Re: Fwd: "getopt.h" no longer part of <stdlib.h>

[Ulrich Drepper]

Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@xpsystems.com> writes:

> If, as you suggest, including "unistd.h" will just work, then I will
> be perfectly happy to modify the source. (Is that what you are
> saying? :-)

Yes.

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Re: Fwd: "getopt.h" no longer part of <stdlib.h>

[Ulrich Drepper]

Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> writes:

> >One of the packages I maintain uses the tried-and-true getopt function
> >from the C library.  The standard System V semantic is that get getopt
> >function is included when you include <stdlib.h>.

getopt.h never was included in stdlib.h.  Old SysV systems included it
in stdio.h which was deprecarted in Unix98 and will be removed in the
next revision.

The only portable way to get to the prototypes is using unistd.h.
Which is of course logical since getopt is a POSIX function.

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Fwd: "getopt.h" no longer part of <stdlib.h>

[Joel Klecker]

>Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:16:42 -0700
>From: Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@xpsystems.com>
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>To: debian-glibc@lists.debian.org
>Subject: "getopt.h" no longer part of <stdlib.h>
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>Please CC all replies to me -- I am not subscribed to debian-glibc.
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>One of the packages I maintain uses the tried-and-true getopt function
>from the C library.  The standard System V semantic is that get getopt
>function is included when you include <stdlib.h>.
>
>It seems (at least with 2.1.2-0pre10) that you have to explicitly
>include "getopt.h".  Is this consistent with how glibc is now doing
>things, or is this a bug?
>
>If it's the new standard, I have to add some #ifdef checks in
>the source to include "getopt.h" for 2.1.2 series libraries.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Brent
>
>
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