Handling argc==0 in the kernel
Handling argc==0 in the kernel
Posted Jan 31, 2022 1:01 UTC (Mon) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027)In reply to: Handling argc==0 in the kernel by rschroev
Parent article: Handling argc==0 in the kernel
>Why do people even try to come up with other ways to do things?
Because that does not accommodate state changes: deleting, re-arranging, or re-writing pieces of argv (and thus argc); because the GNU getopt routine has not always existed, has not always offered all its current features, and early suffered from bugs; and probably other reasons, too.