This way, argv[0] isn't clobbered, to the cost of maybe not having a
resulting NULL terminated argv array.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
---
 parse-options.c |    7 ++++---
 parse-options.h |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index ee82cf3..a6b5e04 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ void parse_options_start(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *ctx,
 	memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(*ctx));
 	ctx->argc = argc - 1;
 	ctx->argv = argv + 1;
-	ctx->out  = argv;
+	ctx->out  = argv + ((flags & PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0) != 0);
 	ctx->flags = flags;
 	strbuf_init(&ctx->buf, 0);
 }
@@ -327,10 +327,11 @@ int parse_options_step(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *ctx,
 
 int parse_options_end(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *ctx)
 {
+	int res = ctx->cpidx + ctx->argc;
 	memmove(ctx->out + ctx->cpidx, ctx->argv, ctx->argc * sizeof(*ctx->out));
-	ctx->out[ctx->cpidx + ctx->argc] = NULL;
+	ctx->out[res] = NULL;
 	strbuf_release(&ctx->buf);
-	return ctx->cpidx + ctx->argc;
+	return res + ((ctx->flags & PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0) != 0);
 }
 
 int parse_options(int argc, const char **argv, const struct option *options,
diff --git a/parse-options.h b/parse-options.h
index 14447d5..6745c7d 100644
--- a/parse-options.h
+++ b/parse-options.h
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ enum parse_opt_type {
 enum parse_opt_flags {
 	PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH = 1,
 	PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION = 2,
+	/* using that option, the filtered argv may not be NULL terminated */
+	PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0 = 4,
 };
 
 enum parse_opt_option_flags {
-- 
1.5.6.110.g736c7.dirty

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