On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Clover White <mywhiteclover(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm debugging initdb using gdb.
> I found that I could not step in the function getopt_long in line 2572 in
> initdb.c.
> I also found that the value of VAR optind never be changed. VAR optind is
> always equal to 1 but how could optind be larger than the value of argc(the
> value of argc is 6) in line 2648 and 2654.
Read the man page for getopt_long. It changes the global variable optind.
It's a silly interface, but also a long and hallowed UNIX tradition,
so we're stuck with it.
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