On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 07:55:36PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
Some commands can get very unweildy if they have too many positional arguments. Adding options makes them easier to read, remember, and understand.
This implementation of getopt has been taken from barebox, which has had option support for quite a while. I have made a few modifications to their version, such as the removal of opterr in favor of a separate getopt_silent function. In addition, I have moved all global variables into struct getopt_context.
The getopt from barebox also re-orders the arguments passed to it so that non-options are placed last. This allows users to specify options anywhere. For example, `ls -l foo/ -R` would be re-ordered to `ls -l -R foo/` as getopt parsed the options. However, this feature conflicts with the const argv in cmd_tbl->cmd. This was originally added in 54841ab50c ("Make sure that argv[] argument pointers are not modified."). The reason stated in that commit is that hush requires argv to stay unmodified. Has this situation changed? Barebox also uses hush, and does not have this problem. Perhaps we could use their fix?
I have assigned maintenance of getopt to Simon Glass, as it is currently only used by the log command. I would also be fine maintaining it.
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson seanga2@gmail.com
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!