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| author | Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> | 2008-10-21 14:51:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> | 2008-10-21 14:51:13 +0200 |
| commit | 5209a846a9157e649fcdcb561f7eaf19c8c0e465 (patch) | |
| tree | b0a7e52b5646c8eec182dbc391e7934b6804488c /lib/popt/README | |
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| parent | 2ee8d29d22bcb1c350ab59d71b0aee548489bc9c (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.samba.org/data/git/samba into regsrv
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source4/lib/registry/ldb.c
source4/rpc_server/winreg/rpc_winreg.c
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diff --git a/lib/popt/README b/lib/popt/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0b5205bfdd --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/popt/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +This is the popt command line option parsing library. While it is similiar +to getopt(3), it contains a number of enhancements, including: + + 1) popt is fully reentrant + 2) popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays while + getopt(2) makes this quite difficult + 3) popt allows users to alias command line arguments + 4) popt provides convience functions for parsing strings + into argv[] style arrays + +popt is used by rpm, the Red Hat install program, and many other Red Hat +utilities, all of which provide excellent examples of how to use popt. +Complete documentation on popt is available in popt.ps (included in this +tarball), which is excerpted with permission from the book "Linux +Application Development" by Michael K. Johnson and Erik Troan (availble +from Addison Wesley in May, 1998). + +Comments on popt should be addressed to ewt@redhat.com. |