diff options
| author | Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> | 2003-08-13 01:53:07 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> | 2003-08-13 01:53:07 +0000 |
| commit | cc3a6ea9920f30925a678c566b4af417da6d455b (patch) | |
| tree | 60015a1a5f4b47ac3d133bdbbe32b75815595d4d /source4/popt/README | |
| parent | 4d1f9d1def5bf5fea64722626028d94da49c654c (diff) | |
| parent | ef2e26c91b80556af033d3335e55f5dfa6fff31d (diff) | |
| download | samba-cc3a6ea9920f30925a678c566b4af417da6d455b.tar.gz samba-cc3a6ea9920f30925a678c566b4af417da6d455b.tar.bz2 samba-cc3a6ea9920f30925a678c566b4af417da6d455b.zip | |
This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r30,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.
(This used to be commit 3a69cffb062d4f1238b8cae10481c1f2ea4d3d8b)
Diffstat (limited to 'source4/popt/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | source4/popt/README | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/source4/popt/README b/source4/popt/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7fccc836ff --- /dev/null +++ b/source4/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 parsting 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. |