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Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2017 08:13:48 -0700
From: <writeonce@...ipix.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: RE: bug in getopt_long()


> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [musl] bug in getopt_long()
> From: "Anthony G. Basile" <basile@...eharbor.net>
> Date: Thu, January 05, 2017 9:00 am
> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We hit a bug in Gentoo with getopt_long(). It appears the alpine people
> hit it too http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/4802. The problem was
> encountered in open-iscsi but I got some reduced code which I've
> attached. If you build and run that code as `./test --portal
> 10.144.0.14 --discover` then you get
> 
> p
> D
> unrecognized character 'D'
> 
> On a glibc system, you don't get the "unrecognized character 'D'" which
> is what we'd expect. Rich suggested a patch to musl which looked like
> it might work, but it didn't. I didn't investigate further. I'm just
> reporting it first to see if others know what's up.
>

The attached patch should work, I believe; tested with both of the
following:

./a.out --portal 10.144.0.14 --discover
./a.out --portal 10.144.0.14 --discover -- foo bar

midipix

 
> 
> -- 
> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
> Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
> E-Mail : basile@...eharbor.net
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