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Re: Getopt lib not restartable?

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From: Jawaid Bazyar
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 21:02
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jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:

>I've been trying to make mkdir restartable, but am having problems.  During
>the second execution getopt returns EOF (-1) when first called, when it
>should be returning an option.  I've checked all my code, and there isn't
>anything I'm not initializing at run time.  So, it seems that there is 
>something in the getopt lib that prevents it from being restartable...

  There are three or so global variables that getopt() keeps; you need
to initialize those to their proper values in main().

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