On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 09:31:54PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Agreed, if it actually is 19 years old. I'm wondering a little bit
> if there could be some moderately-recent glibc behavior change
> involved. I'm not excited enough about it to go trawl their change
> log, but we should keep our ears cocked for similar reports.
From a brief glance, I believe this is long-standing behavior. Even though
we advance optind at the bottom of the loop, the next getopt_long() call
seems to reset it to the first non-option (which was saved in a previous
call).
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