Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] getopt, argp - reentrant getopt interface, argp fixes

[James Youngman]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:43:19PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> > 1. Add new reentrant interfaces for getopt (getopt_r, getopt_long_r,
> >    getopt_long_only_r) and supporting data type (struct getopt_data)
> >    and macro (GETOPT_DATA_INITIALIZER).
> 
> No, this is ridiculous.  If a program takes command line options parse
> them before creating threads or do it always only from one thread.  

It's not about threads, necessarily.  Marcus's email described the
scenario where there is a need to execute getopt() before a call to
getopt() in the current (and perhaps only) thread has returned.