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-rw-r--r--libbb/getopt_ulflags.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libbb/getopt_ulflags.c b/libbb/getopt_ulflags.c
index 19c96914d..e0dc1371f 100644
--- a/libbb/getopt_ulflags.c
+++ b/libbb/getopt_ulflags.c
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ bb_getopt_ulflags (int argc, char **argv, const char *applet_opts, ...)
and so on. You can also look at the return value as a bit
field and each option sets one bit.
+ On exit, global variable optind is set so that if you
+ will do argc -= optind; argv += optind; then
+ argc will be equal to number of remaining non-option
+ arguments, first one would be in argv[0], next in argv[1] and so on
+ (options and their parameters will be moved into argv[]
+ positions prior to argv[optind]).
+
":" If one of the options requires an argument, then add a ":"
after the char in applet_opts and provide a pointer to store
the argument. For example: