busybox Digest, Vol 13, Issue 57

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Aug 28 20:27:18 UTC 2006


On Monday 28 August 2006 12:58 pm, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:59:29PM -0300,  Alastor Santamaria wrote:
> >hello, quick question, is bb_getopt_ulflags going to disappear?
> >
> >beacuse I'm going to post an applet that uses it.
> 
> No, it will not be removed.
> 
> A gazillion of applets do use it and it is a nice and handy impl.
> 
> Although landley talked about rewriting it in whole or in parts, he will
> need to maintain equivalent functionality anyway.

Yup.

And it is very much not a priority for 1.3.0.  My plate's full at the 
moment...

> Personally, i'd be reluctant to accept *any* re-impl of e.g. that
> functionality if it does not impose a size-improvement.

How about "not using getopt from libc at all"?  That's the real motivation.  
We're now wrapping getopt deeply enough that it's easier to just do it 
ourselves (and not permute our arguments either).

Rob
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