From 2d5707c7479eacb3b1ad98e01b53f56a88f8fb78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:14:31 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 3.2.7. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- popt/README | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 popt/README (limited to 'popt/README') diff --git a/popt/README b/popt/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b5205b --- /dev/null +++ b/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. -- cgit v1.2.3