Andreas Wenning wrote: > Package: offlineimap > Version: 5.99.4 > Severity: normal > > Forwarded from Ubuntu, see: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/offlineimap/+bug/204572 > > When offlineimap is launched with an unrecognized command line option, > it crashes with an exeption. It should not crash, simply show the help > information. I guess, that offlineimap options parser should be > modified. > > The problem also exists in offlineimap 6.0.2
I'm not certain that this is really a bug. OfflineIMAP is specifically designed to yield a stack trace whenever it encounters a fatal error of any sort, and to display a useful message at the bottom of the screen. I believe that this helps with debugging, and in fact, it often does. In this case, it is: getopt.GetoptError: option --asdf not recognized which pretty clearly states the problem, doesn't it? $ rm --asdf rm: unrecognized option `--asdf' Try `rm --help' for more information. rm --asdf doesn't display help. Let's try some other commands: $ gcc --asdf gcc: no input files sed --asdf displays help so does awk So there is really no consensus on whether full help should be shown. I maintain that OfflineIMAP *should* crash when given incorrect options. And indeed, everything else does too: $ gcc --asdf gcc: no input files $ echo $? 1 $ offlineimap --asdf ... $ echo $? 1 so I would say it is standard to return a nonzero exit code when bad options are given. I think this bug ought to be closed, but what's your feedback? -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
