reopen 606178
thanks
On 04/01/2013 02:19 AM, Craig Small wrote:
The /dir is the first non-option so everything past it is a name to be
looked at.
Thank you for confirming the current behavior, but five problems remain:
1. That’s inconsistent with how GNU getopt works. GNU getopt treats any
argument beginning with - as an option, even after positional arguments,
unless -- has been used. (I see that fuser doesn’t actually use GNU
getopt, but that’s not a good reason to be inconsistent with it.)
2. That’s inconsistent with other options.
$ fuser -i -k /tmp/test
/tmp/test: 25825
Kill process 25825 ? (y/N) n
$ fuser -k /tmp/test -i
/tmp/test: 25825
Kill process 25825 ? (y/N) n
3. That’s inconsistent with the error messages:
$ fuser /missing /alsomissing
Specified filename /missing does not exist.
Specified filename /alsomissing does not exist.
$ fuser /missing -m
Specified filename /missing does not exist.
(There’s no error message about ‘-m’ not existing.)
4. That’s inconsistent with the manpage:
-m NAME, --mount NAME
NAME specifies a file on a mounted file system or a block
device that is mounted. […]
(NAME is documented as an argument to -m, not a positional argument.)
5. That’s confusing and dangerous. It shouldn’t be possible for an
option intended as a safety feature to silently have no effect just
because it was specified in the wrong order on the command line.
Anders
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