From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 04/08/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: organizing "missing" features
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 02:30:17 GMT

In article <1993Apr7.142921.13734@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) writes:
>In article <1993Apr6.053051.15120@fylz.wa.com> fyl@fylz.wa.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
>>are missing in Linux. I was working on porting some code from system
>>V and so far have come up with lockf() and optopt (a symbol related to
>
>Try POSIX lock to replace lockf ().

lockf() was never part of stock System V; it was an add-on in many actual
releases but wasn't part of the AT&T kernel, if I remember correctly.

>There is optopt in getopt (3C) man page under HP-UX. But it doesn't
>say how to use it :-(.

Look in Linux's own /usr/include/unistd.h (from GNU libc):

   For unrecognized options, or options missing arguments,
   `optopt' is set to the option letter, and '?' is returned.

++Brandon 

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