[PATCH v2] Improve support for long options to grep
Walter Lozano
walter.lozano at collabora.com
Fri Feb 18 15:33:46 UTC 2022
On 1/26/22 16:12, Walter Lozano wrote:
>
>
> On 1/26/22 15:38, Xabier Oneca -- xOneca wrote:
>> Hi Walter,
>>
>> > There is also unnecessary duplication of source code.
>> >
>> > Just use a #define and C string concatenation to add the extra
>> > long option strings.
>>
>> Yes, I totally agree you. However I used this approach since a
>> previous
>> patch I submitted was rewritten in this way [1] when applying to
>> master.
>>
>>
>> Maybe a better approach is to always use getopt32long, as it is
>> converted to getopt32 if LONG_OPTS is not enabled. Maybe Denys forgot
>> about this.
>> See libbb.h:
>> https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/include/libbb.h#n1351
>> <https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/include/libbb.h#n1351>
>
> Thank you for the pointer. Yes, it looks much cleaner to always use
> getopt32long, not sure if there was some reason I'm not aware to try to
> avoid it.
>
Denys any preference in how to handle this to move things forwards?
Regards,
--
Walter Lozano
Collabora Ltd.
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