Re: SCSI disk devices

Bob Taylor (brtaylor@qtpi.lakewood.ca.us)
Sun, 04 May 1997 12:48:07 -0700

terje.malmedal@usit.uio.no said:
> terje.malmedal
>
[snip]
>
> BTW. Linux for ppc uses an unsigned char so this code does not work:
>
> char c;
> ...
> while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "flvsm:")) != EOF)
> ...
>
> c needs to be an int instead. This is a problem in scsidev and
> scsiinfo, apart from that both programs work very nicely on my
> machine.
>

This is a programming error. Getopt returns an integer.

int getopt(int argc, char * const argv[], const char *optstring);

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