On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> > Alexander Joerg Herrmann wrote:
> >
> > > What I was mentioning is that
> > > regtool -K
> > > causes a core fault and something similar under windows because the
> > > argument is broken. I know that the argument is missing and so should
> > > regtool. It should produce a usage message insteed of a crash imo.
> >
> > The program should not core dump on invalid arguments. That I agree
> > with, and it's a bug that should be fixed.
>
> Well, it's just a matter of adding a check for optarg being NULL and
> printing an appropriate message (e.g.,
> if (optarg == NULL) {
> fprintf(stderr, "Missing key-value separator\n");
> usage();
> }
> ).
>
> However, the question is what should getopt's behavior be if something
> specified as a "required_argument" is missing? Should it simply set
> optarg to NULL, just like it does with "optional_argument", or should it
> return an error code of some sort? Any getopt experts out there?
Whoops, never mind. It's a bug, pure and simple. According to
<http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_2.0.0/LSB-generic/LSB-generic/libutil-getopt-3.html>,
two colons after a character indicate an *optional* argument, and for a
required argument one needs to use only one colon. The only change needed
is that opts[] needs to only have one colon after "K".
Igor
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