From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 15:56:56 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: shared/options: introduce OPTION_ERROR
X-Git-Tag: v261-rc1~157^2~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2289ac82d4150174212e716b696b7bddb4f240d7;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

shared/options: introduce OPTION_ERROR

[zjs: this was originally proposed in
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/930fc9d6980f27b278527b0d6117f97296fcaf6a.
I'm rescuing one chunk from that patch.]
---

diff --git a/src/shared/options.h b/src/shared/options.h
index d60c9afe81b..a6c55e0bdc5 100644
--- a/src/shared/options.h
+++ b/src/shared/options.h
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ typedef struct Option {
 #define OPTION_POSITIONAL OPTION_FULL(OPTION_POSITIONAL_ENTRY, /* sc= */ 0, "(positional)", /* mv= */ NULL, /* h= */ NULL)
 #define OPTION_HELP_VERBATIM(lc, h) OPTION_FULL(OPTION_HELP_ENTRY_VERBATIM, /* sc= */ 0, lc, /* mv= */ NULL, h)
 
+/* This can be used when custom error handling is needed. */
+#define OPTION_ERROR                                                    \
+        case INT_MIN ... -1
+
 #define OPTION_COMMON_HELP                                              \
         OPTION('h', "help", NULL, "Show this help")