Bruce Evans <b...@optusnet.com.au> writes:
> Actually, it is OK to use it in FreeBSD iff the system supports the
> same program having different names, like reboot/halt/etc.
I don't see the point - you would still need different usage messages
for each version. Using your example:
% reboot -h
reboot: illegal option -- h
usage: reboot [-dlnpq] [-k kernel]
% halt -h
halt: illegal option -- h
usage: halt [-lnpq] [-k kernel]
The code that implements this is needlessly complicated:
static void
usage()
{
(void)fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s [-%slnpq] [-k kernel]\n",
getprogname(), dohalt ? "" : "d");
exit(1);
}
The following is far more readable:
static void
usage(void)
{
(void)fprintf(stderr, dohalt ?
"usage: halt [-lnpq] [-k kernel]\n" :
"usage: reboot [-dlnpq] [-k kernel]\n");
exit(1);
}
BTW, there are numerous style issues in sbin/reboot/reboot.c.
> This was discussed in FreeBSD mailing lists years ago, and IIRC no one
> disagreed with the existing practice of hard-coding the program name.
ISTR it was one of my commits that triggered the discussion. It must
have been ten years ago, or close to it. Blink of an eye ;)
I just realized that we have at least one committer who wasn't born when
the FreeBSD project was founded...
DES
--
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no
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