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-rw-r--r--src/journal/cat.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/journal/cat.c b/src/journal/cat.c
index 5908758a8f..d3f7785ad3 100644
--- a/src/journal/cat.c
+++ b/src/journal/cat.c
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ static int parse_argv(int argc, char *argv[]) {
assert(argc >= 0);
assert(argv);
+ /* Resetting to 0 forces the invocation of an internal initialization routine of getopt_long()
+ * that checks for GNU extensions in optstring ('-' or '+' at the beginning). */
+ optind = 0;
while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "+ht:p:", options, NULL)) >= 0)
switch (c) {