[Pkg-shadow-devel] [PATCH] send --help output to stdout

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 16:33:33 Nicolas François wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 07:26:33AM -0400, vapier at gentoo.org wrote:
> > If someone uses the -h/--help options, the usage should not go to stderr
> > nor should the utility exit with non-zero status.  All of the shadow
> > utils do just this unfortunately, so convert them over to sanity.
>
> It's still not applied, but I agree that this should be sent to stdout.
>
> I will keep the prototype declaration as I have some tools complaining
> when a function is defined with no prior declaration, and it is just
> easier to keep the prototype than configure all the checker tools.

i thought about creating a common usage() function that'd take the array of 
long options and an array of descriptions and output that so things would be 
standardized across the utils ... but the layout of the usage output isnt 
standardized perfectly, so i didnt want to radically change things.  but 
perhaps that is a better route ...
-mike
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