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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-04-18 06:24:03 +0000
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* manual/intro.texi: Change reference from System Information to System Management. * manual/users.texi: Likewise. * manual/conf.texi: Likewise. * manual/sysinfo.texi: Document mount, umount, and umount2. Patch by Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe-data.com>. 2000-04-17 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> * sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128/printf_fphex.c (PRINT_FPHEX_LONG_DOUBLE): Create wnumstr as well as numstr to support wide character output correctly. 2000-04-15 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> * sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/Makefile: Remove sysdep-CFLAGS modification and move it... * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/Makefile: ...here. Add -melf64_sparc switch to $(LD) on sparc64-linux. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/Makefile: Add -melf32_sparc switch to $(LD) on sparc-linux. 2000-04-17 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/Makefile: Remove setresgid and setresuid frm sysdep_routines. 2000-04-17 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> * manual/resource.texi: ...here. New file. Document ulimit, vlimit, and vtimes.
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@@ -74,10 +74,10 @@ in @var{flags}, calling @code{argp_parse} may result in the program
exiting---for instance when an unknown option is encountered.
@xref{Program Termination}.
-If @var{arg_index} is non-NULL, the index of the first unparsed option
+If @var{arg_index} is non-null, the index of the first unparsed option
in @var{argv} is returned in it.
-The return value is zero for successful parsing, or a unix error code
+The return value is zero for successful parsing, or an error code
(@pxref{Error Codes}) if an error was detected. Different argp parsers
may return arbitrary error codes, but standard ones are @code{ENOMEM} if
a memory allocation error occurred, or @code{EINVAL} if an unknown option
@@ -556,11 +556,14 @@ combined).
Some non-option argument was unrecognized.
This occurs when every parser function returns @code{ARGP_KEY_UNKNOWN}
-for an argument, in which case parsing stops at that argument. If a
-non-NULL value for @var{arg_index} was passed to @code{argp_parse}, the
-index of this argument is returned in it, otherwise an error occurs.
+for an argument, in which case parsing stops at that argument. If
+@var{arg_index} is a null pointer otherwise an error occurs.
@end table
+In all cases, if a non-null value for @var{arg_index} was passed to
+@code{argp_parse}, the index of the first unparsed command-line argument
+is passed back in it.
+
If an error occurs (either detected by argp, or because a parser
function returned an error value), then each parser is called with
@code{ARGP_KEY_ERROR}, and no further calls are made except the final