On 13.03.2017 06:11, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> The qemu-img sub-command executes regardless of invalid global options:
> 
>   $ qemu-img --foo info test.img
>   qemu-img: unrecognized option '--foo'
>   image: test.img
>   ...
> 
> The unrecognized option warning may be missed by the user.  This can
> hide incorrect command-lines in scripts and confuse users.
> 
> This patch prints the help information and terminates instead of
> executing the sub-command.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  qemu-img.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Well, now you get blown away by a wall of text and spotting what went
wrong is actually not quite simple. Maybe we should follow the way of
the coreutils, that is:

qemu-img: unrecognized option '--foo'
Try 'qemu-img --help' for more information.

?

Max

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