[committed] manual: Clarify that abbreviations of long options are allowed
Commit Message
The man page and code comments clearly state that abbreviations of long
option names are recognized correctly as long as they are unique.
Document this fact in the glibc manual as well.
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
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manual/getopt.texi | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
@@ -250,7 +250,8 @@ option, and stores the option's argument (if it has one) in @code{optarg}.
When @code{getopt_long} encounters a long option, it takes actions based
on the @code{flag} and @code{val} fields of the definition of that
-option.
+option. The option name may be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is
+unique.
If @code{flag} is a null pointer, then @code{getopt_long} returns the
contents of @code{val} to indicate which option it found. You should