https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=817244 mentions that
unlike most other tools, where --help or --version prevent all
further parsing of all later options, virsh was strange in that
--version stopped parsing but --help tried to plow on to the end.
There was no rationale for this original implementation (since
2005!), so I think we can safely conform to common usage patterns.
* tools/virsh.c (main): Drop useless 'help' variable.
static bool
vshParseArgv(vshControl *ctl, int argc, char **argv)
{
- bool help = false;
int arg, len;
struct option opt[] = {
{"debug", required_argument, NULL, 'd'},
}
break;
case 'h':
- help = true;
+ vshUsage();
+ exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
break;
case 'q':
ctl->quiet = true;
}
}
- if (help) {
- if (optind < argc) {
- vshError(ctl, _("extra argument '%s'. See --help."), argv[optind]);
- exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
- }
-
- /* list all command */
- vshUsage();
- exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
- }
-
if (argc > optind) {
/* parse command */
ctl->imode = false;