Commit 4ea280eb authored by Rusty Russell's avatar Rusty Russell

opt: fix up outdated comments in documentation.

parent f51a60f7
......@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct opt_table;
{ (names), OPT_CB_NOARG((cb), (arg)), { (arg) }, (desc) }
/**
* OPT_WITH_ARG() - macro for initializing long and short option (with arg)
* OPT_WITH_ARG() - macro for initializing an opt_table entry (with arg)
* @names: the option names eg. "--foo=<arg>", "-f" or "-f|--foo <arg>".
* @cb: the callback when the option is found (along with <arg>).
* @show: the callback to print the value in get_usage (or NULL)
......@@ -147,8 +147,9 @@ void opt_register_table(const struct opt_table *table, const char *desc);
* where "type" is the type of the @arg argument. The first argument to the
* @cb is the argument found on the commandline.
*
* At least one of @longopt and @shortopt must be non-zero. If the
* @cb returns false, opt_parse() will stop parsing and return false.
* If the @cb returns non-NULL, opt_parse() will stop parsing, use the
* returned string to form an error message for errlog(), free() the
* string and return false.
*
* Example:
* static char *explode(const char *optarg, void *unused)
......@@ -168,12 +169,15 @@ void opt_register_table(const struct opt_table *table, const char *desc);
* @errlog: the function to print errors
*
* This iterates through the command line and calls callbacks registered with
* opt_register_table()/opt_register_arg()/opt_register_noarg(). If there
* are unknown options, missing arguments or a callback returns false, then
* an error message is printed and false is returned.
* opt_register_table()/opt_register_arg()/opt_register_noarg(). As this
* occurs successfully each option is removed from argc and argv.
*
* If there are unknown options, missing arguments or a callback
* returns false, then an error message is printed and false is
* returned: the erroneous option is not removed.
*
* On success, argc and argv are adjusted so only the non-option elements
* remain, and true is returned.
* On success, argc and argv will contain only the non-option
* elements, and true is returned.
*
* Example:
* if (!opt_parse(&argc, argv, opt_log_stderr)) {
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