[PATCH] windows: make getopt functions have const properties

Tyler Retzlaff roretzla at linux.microsoft.com
Fri Mar 15 21:02:26 CET 2024


On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 08:14:06AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Having different prototypes on different platforms can lead
> to lots of unnecessary workarounds.  Looks like the version of
> getopt used from windows was based on an older out of date
> version from FreeBSD.
> 
> This patch changes getopt, getopt_long, etc to have the same const
> attributes as Linux and FreeBSD. The changes are derived from
> the current FreeBSD version of getopt_long.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---

Acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla at linux.microsoft.com>



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