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Re: [PATCH] getopt,argp - reentrant getopt interface, argp fixes
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Marcus Brinkmann <marcus dot brinkmann at ruhr-uni-bochum dot de>,libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, bug-gnulib at gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:45:17 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] getopt,argp - reentrant getopt interface, argp fixes
> No, this is ridiculous. If a program takes command line options parse
> them before creating threads or do it always only from one thread. This
> is overkill at the most ludicrous level.
argp is not only used for command-line arguments. It is used to parse
options given by client requests at run time.