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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-19 17:20:00 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-19 17:20:00 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 2:4.20.0+dfsg.upstream/2%4.20.0+dfsg
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diff --git a/third_party/popt/README b/third_party/popt/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c66432d --- /dev/null +++ b/third_party/popt/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +This is the popt(3) 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(3) 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 + +Complete documentation on popt(3) 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 (available +from Addison Wesley in May, 1998). + +Comments on popt should be addressed to popt-devel@rpm5.org. |