1999-03-16 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

* manual/getopt.texi (Using Getopt): Explain "::" in option
string.  Reported by Yuri Niyazov <yuricake@geocities.com>.
1999-03-16  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* manual/getopt.texi (Using Getopt): Explain "::" in option
	string.  Reported by Yuri Niyazov <yuricake@geocities.com>.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ee7358b..ee9bb10 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1999-03-16  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
+
+       * manual/getopt.texi (Using Getopt): Explain "::" in option
+       string.  Reported by Yuri Niyazov <yuricake@geocities.com>.
+
 1999-03-18  Thorsten Kukuk  <kukuk@suse.de>
 
        * sunrpc/clnt_unix.c: Fix creation of parameters for

diff --git a/manual/getopt.texi b/manual/getopt.texi
index 8e1102f..f3934d0 100644 (file)
--- a/manual/getopt.texi
+++ b/manual/getopt.texi
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ Normally these values come directly from the arguments received by
 The @var{options} argument is a string that specifies the option
 characters that are valid for this program.  An option character in this
 string can be followed by a colon (@samp{:}) to indicate that it takes a
-required argument.
+required argument.  If an option character is followed by two colons
+(@samp{::}), its argument is optional; this is a GNU extension.
 
 If the @var{options} argument string begins with a hyphen (@samp{-}), this
 is treated specially.  It permits arguments that are not options to be