>Number: 164570
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: [patch] pom(6) wrong usage message
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 28 13:50:06 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Klaus Aehlig
>Release: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD curry.linta.de 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #15: Thu Jan 12
01:30:10 CET 2012 r...@curry.linta.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CURRY amd64
>Description:
For incorrect non-option arguments, pom(6) displays the first argument
instead of the program name in the usage-message
>How-To-Repeat:
$ pom 1970.01.01
Usage: 1970.01.01 [-p] [-d yyyy.mm.dd] [-t hh:mm:ss]
Would have expected
Usage: pom [-p] [-d yyyy.mm.dd] [-t hh:mm:ss]
or similar.
>Fix:
use the following patch
--- patch-pom.c begins here ---
--- pom.c.orig 2012-01-28 14:01:25.000000000 +0100
+++ pom.c 2012-01-28 14:06:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
double days, today, tomorrow;
int ch, cnt, pflag = 0;
char *odate = NULL, *otime = NULL;
+ char *progname = argv[0];
while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "d:pt:")) != -1)
switch (ch) {
@@ -103,14 +104,14 @@
otime = optarg;
break;
default:
- usage(argv[0]);
+ usage(progname);
}
argc -= optind;
argv += optind;
if (argc)
- usage(argv[0]);
+ usage(progname);
/* Adjust based on users preferences */
time(&tt);
--- patch-pom.c ends here ---
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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