[Openvas-devel] Removing getopt Dependency from OpenVAS

[Michael Wiegand]

Hello,

as a preparation for OpenVAS 2.0, I have begun to eliminate all traces of 
getopt from the OpenVAS source code, starting with the now obsolete local 
copies in openvas-libraries.

As a reminder, command line parsing in -server, -client and the openvas-nasl 
standalone interpreter has been switched to glib as announced in CR #9 and CR 
#11 (see http://www.openvas.org/openvas-cr-9.html and 
http://www.openvas.org/openvas-cr-11.html).

However, I have found two small programs which are still using getopt:
openvas-libraries/libopenvas_hg/test.c and
openvas-server/openvasd/openvas-check-signature.c.

test.c in libopenvas_hg uses the getopt from unistd.h, which should remain 
available. Since it seems to be an example app, I don't have any issues with 
the getopt use there.

openvas-check-signature.c on the other hand uses the getopt_long which used to 
be provided by the local getopt copy in openvas-libraries. Since I am about 
to remove this copy and don't want to add an dependency on an external 
getopt, this would break due to my change.

I don't think openvas-check-signature.c is needed anymore, since signature 
verification can be simply done with "gpg --verify". I'd rather remove it 
than switch it to glib if this the case, but I don't know if any of you is 
still using this file or has plans for it.

So if you want to keep this file around for whatever reason, please let me 
know; otherwise I will remove it with my getopt removal commit.

Regards,

Michael

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