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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 5a04f3daec..4412377fa3 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ Flags are the bitwise-or of: Keep the first argument, which contains the program name. It's removed from argv[] by default. -`PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN`:: - Keep unknown arguments instead of erroring out. This doesn't +`PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT`:: + Keep unknown options instead of erroring out. This doesn't work for all combinations of arguments as users might expect it to do. E.g. if the first argument in `--unknown --known` takes a value (which we can't know), the second one is @@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ Flags are the bitwise-or of: non-option, not as a value belonging to the unknown option, the parser early. That's why parse_options() errors out if both options are set. + Note that non-option arguments are always kept, even without + this flag. `PARSE_OPT_NO_INTERNAL_HELP`:: By default, parse_options() handles `-h`, `--help` and |