"Tux" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> writes:
> Might be some deep down misbehaving system library, but on HP-UX 11.00 (not
> on 11.11, and/or 11.23) getopt_long () misbehaves in that it causes all
> command line utilities to se the program name as the first argument,
Hmm. The Single Unix Spec,
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/getopt.html
saith
> The variable optind is the index of the next element of the argv[]
> vector to be processed. It is initialised to 1 by the system, ...
so it's extremely hard to see how your report demonstrates anything
except that HPUX 11.00 is broken. I'm not very interested in
memorializing a hack workaround for a bug in a libc version that HP
obsoleted years ago...
regards, tom lane