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-rw-r--r--src/include/pg_getopt.h10
-rw-r--r--src/port/getopt.c11
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/pg_getopt.h b/src/include/pg_getopt.h
index bb5d2344401..639a1613c13 100644
--- a/src/include/pg_getopt.h
+++ b/src/include/pg_getopt.h
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
/*
+ * Postgres files that use getopt(3) always include this file.
+ * We must cope with three different scenarios:
+ * 1. We're using the platform's getopt(), and we should just import the
+ * appropriate declarations.
+ * 2. The platform lacks getopt(), and we must declare everything.
+ * 3. The platform has getopt(), but we're not using it because we don't
+ * like its behavior. The declarations we make here must be compatible
+ * with both the platform's getopt() and our src/port/getopt.c.
+ *
* Portions Copyright (c) 1987, 1993, 1994
* The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
*
@@ -39,6 +48,7 @@ extern int optopt;
extern int optreset;
#endif
+/* Provide getopt() declaration if the platform doesn't have it */
#ifndef HAVE_GETOPT
extern int getopt(int nargc, char *const *nargv, const char *ostr);
#endif
diff --git a/src/port/getopt.c b/src/port/getopt.c
index 10f4228d7c9..207c2836d35 100644
--- a/src/port/getopt.c
+++ b/src/port/getopt.c
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
/* src/port/getopt.c */
-/* This is used by psql under Win32 */
-
/*
* Copyright (c) 1987, 1993, 1994
* The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -40,10 +38,11 @@ static char sccsid[] = "@(#)getopt.c 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/27/95";
/*
- * On some versions of Solaris, opterr and friends are defined in core libc
- * rather than in a separate getopt module. Define these variables only
- * if configure found they aren't there by default. (We assume that testing
- * opterr is sufficient for all of these.)
+ * On OpenBSD and some versions of Solaris, opterr and friends are defined in
+ * core libc rather than in a separate getopt module. Define these variables
+ * only if configure found they aren't there by default; otherwise, this
+ * module and its callers will just use libc's variables. (We assume that
+ * testing opterr is sufficient for all of these.)
*/
#ifndef HAVE_INT_OPTERR