Hey, On 11/02/2011 Olivier Berger wrote: > Hi. > > luksformat --help is unsupported. > > Still, it happens to invoke cryptsetup --help somehow, which won't report the > same as man luksformat. This is troublesome. > > Would it be possible to add a --help option that just reports the help/pod > message ? > > Thanks in advance.
attached patch fixes luksformat to invoke usage() when --help is given. it will be fixed with the next upload of cryptsetup. greetings, jonas
--- /usr/sbin/luksformat.orig 2011-01-14 00:01:00.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/sbin/luksformat 2011-02-13 14:23:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
use Getopt::Long qw(:config pass_through);
-sub help() {
+sub usage() {
print "luksformat - Create and format an encrypted LUKS device
Usage: luksformat [-t <file system>] <device> [ mkfs options ]\n";
exit 1;
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@
$fs = 'vfat';
exit 1 unless GetOptions ('t|type=s' => \$fs);
-help() if $#ARGV < 0;
+GetOptions ('help', \$help);
+if (($#ARGV < 0) || ($help)) {
+ usage();
+}
if ($> != 0) {
print STDERR "This program needs to be started as root\n";
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