[Linux-ha-dev] problem with getopt(3) on some tools

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,

at least with cl_status, there is a problem on OpenBSD:

http://developerbugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1826

I took a closer look and found out that the openbsd getopt(3) strictly 
conforms to POSIX, but not the GNU one, therefore stuff like this is 
working on Linux, but not on OpenBSD:

cl_status listnodes -n

on OpenBSD the parameters behind listnodes are ignored on OpenBSD because 
the strict conformity to POSIX. You can make Linux strictly conform to POSIX 
when you define the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT before running e.g. 
export POSIXLY_CORRECT=YES
cl_status listnodes -n

then you have the same behavior as I experience on OpenBSD.

On the OpenBSD misc list I got the suggestion to either prepend the 
listnodes with an option, e.g. 

cl_status -c listnodes -n

to make it work, or to fiddle around with argc, argv, to filter out the non 
option arguments before the first option.


How is getopt behaving on other *BSD/Solaris?
You can use cl_status or the small test program that I added to the bug 
report mentioned above.

any objections on this, what would be the best way to make it work on 
OpenBSD?

cheers
Sebastian