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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:40:19 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: getopt_long_only
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 01:43:28PM -0400, Daniel Sabogal wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Sidney Manning <sidneym@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> > I may have found an issue with this API. When a double hyphen is
> > encountered the API is supposed to return a -1 but I'm seeing a '?'.
> >
> > My reference is from the Solaris docs which say: "The special option "--"
> > can be used to delimit the end of the options; when it is encountered, -1 is
> > returned and "--" is skipped. I attached a test case to show the problem.
> >
> > I made the following change it will cause the code to punt to getopt when
> > just a "--" is found:
> > argv[optind][0] == '-'
> > argv[optind][1] == '-'
> > argv[optind][2] == NULL
> >
> > diff --git a/src/misc/getopt_long.c b/src/misc/getopt_long.c
> > index 480c001..9764f56 100644
> > --- a/src/misc/getopt_long.c
> > +++ b/src/misc/getopt_long.c
> > @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static int __getopt_long_core(int argc, char *const *argv,
> > con
> > {
> > optarg = 0;
> > if (longopts && argv[optind][0] == '-' &&
> > - ((longonly && argv[optind][1]) ||
> > + ((longonly && argv[optind][1]) &&
> > (argv[optind][1] == '-' && argv[optind][2])))
> > {
> > int colon =
> > optstring[optstring[0]=='+'||optstring[0]=='-']==':'
>
> This will break getopt_long() since the entire condition won't hold
> whenever !longonly.
>
> I think just changing the longonly case to the following is sufficient.
>
> (longonly && argv[optind][1] && argv[optind][1] != '-')
Yes, that looks like the correct fix.
Rich
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