Re: Thread-safe getopt()

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> Thread-local variables would work too, but I think we'd need to give 
> them different names anyway to avoid conflicting with the plain getopt() 
> global variables.

Oh, excellent point.  I was thinking the change could be purely local to
getopt.c, but that probably wouldn't work because some of them are in
the visible API.

            regards, tom lane