Re: why was the VAR 'optind' never changed in initdb?

On 04/09/2012 07:38 AM, Clover White wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'm debugging initdb using gdb.
>   I found that I could not step in the function getopt_long in line 
> 2572 in initdb.c.
>   I also found that the value of VAR optind never be changed. VAR 
> optind is always equal to 1 but how could optind be larger than the 
> value of argc(the value of argc is 6) in line 2648 and 2654.
>
> I was so confused. Could someone give me some help? Thank you~
>
>

Why do you expect it to be? Perhaps if you tell us what problem you're 
actually trying to solve we can help you better.

cheers

andrew