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-rw-r--r--Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo3
-rw-r--r--Doc/Zsh/options.yo4
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
index a2c03bcc4..f8e4edf91 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
@@ -866,7 +866,8 @@ vindex(OPTARG, use of)
 
 The first option to be examined may be changed by explicitly assigning
 to tt(OPTIND).  tt(OPTIND) has an initial value of tt(1), and is
-normally reset to tt(1) upon exit from a shell function.  tt(OPTARG)
+normally set to tt(1) upon entry to a shell function and restored
+upon exit (this is disabled by the tt(POSIX_BUILTINS) option).  tt(OPTARG)
 is not reset and retains its value from the most recent call to
 tt(getopts).  If either of tt(OPTIND) or tt(OPTARG) is explicitly
 unset, it remains unset, and the index or option argument is not
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/options.yo b/Doc/Zsh/options.yo
index 032423def..4c0ae122f 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/options.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/options.yo
@@ -2038,6 +2038,10 @@ tt(unset).
 In addition, various error conditions associated with the above builtins
 or tt(exec) cause a non-interactive shell to exit and an interactive
 shell to return to its top-level processing.
+
+Furthermore, the tt(getopts) builtin behaves in a POSIX-compatible
+fashion in that the associated variable tt(OPTIND) is not made
+local to functions.
 )
 pindex(POSIX_IDENTIFIERS)
 pindex(NO_POSIX_IDENTIFIERS)