Re: [PATCH 4/5] trace-cmd: fix argument parsing minor BUG

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Apr 25 2017 - 19:07:20 EST


On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 12:22:57 +0200
Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For some reason the list command does not use anymore `getopt()`
> to parse the arguments, instead it uses a custum implementation.
>
> During this change [5da0eff trace-cmd: Add regex for listing of events]
> the variable `optind` has been forgotten.
>
> To reproduce the problem try to use invalid arguments. The application
> will not report the correct invalid argument
>
> $ ./trace-cmd list -a
> list: invalid option -- 'i'
>
> Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> trace-cmd.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/trace-cmd.c b/trace-cmd.c
> index 1a62faa..a05df92 100644
> --- a/trace-cmd.c
> +++ b/trace-cmd.c
> @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
> break;
> default:
> fprintf(stderr, "list: invalid option -- '%c'\n",
> - argv[optind][1]);
> + argv[i][1]);

Hmm, I had this fixed back in September. I haven't push in a long time.

Well, I applied your other patches (Thanks!). I'm going to finally
start updating trace-cmd this week.

-- Steve

> usage(argv);
> }
> }