[Libguestfs] [PATCH libguestfs 2/5] guestfish: write --help to stdout, use gnulib's progname module

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:21:54PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> +  /* getopt_long uses argv[0], so give it the sanitized name, too.  */
> +  argv[0] = bad_cast (program_name);

This is wrong.

We rely on seeing the original argv[0] later in the code, so that
people can run ./fish/guestfish from the source directory and have the
appliance path set correctly:

  /* If developing, add ./appliance to the path.  Note that libtools
   * interferes with this because uninstalled guestfish is a shell
   * script that runs the real program with an absolute path.  Detect
   * that too.
   *
   * BUT if LIBGUESTFS_PATH environment variable is already set by
   * the user, then don't override it.
   */
  if (getenv ("LIBGUESTFS_PATH") == NULL &&
      argv[0] &&
      (argv[0][0] != '/' || strstr (argv[0], "/.libs/lt-") != NULL))
    guestfs_set_path (g, "appliance:" GUESTFS_DEFAULT_PATH);


> +  enum { HELP_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1 };
> +
>    static const char *options = "a:Df:h::im:nrv?Vx";
>    static const struct option long_options[] = {
>      { "add", 1, 0, 'a' },
>      { "cmd-help", 2, 0, 'h' },
>      { "file", 1, 0, 'f' },
> -    { "help", 0, 0, '?' },
> +    { "help", 0, 0, HELP_OPTION },

I'm unclear on why we do this - what's wrong with using '?'?

Rich.

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