Most BusyBox applets respond to the '--help' option by printing
a usage message. This is normally handled by busybox_main() so
applet main routines don't have support for '--help'.
In standalone shell mode with FEATURE_SH_NOFORK enabled nofork
applets are invoked directly, bypassing busybox_main(). This
results in inconsistent handling of '--help':
- applets which call getopt() report "unrecognized option '--help'"
and print help anyway;
- realpath says "--help: No such file or directory" and doesn't
print help;
- usleep says "invalid number '--help'" and doesn't print help.
Avoid inconsistency by checking for '--help' in run_nofork_applet().
Bug found by Ron Yorston.
function old new delta
show_usage_if_dash_dash_help - 70 +70
run_nofork_applet 347 362 +15
run_applet_no_and_exit 432 365 -67
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(add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 85/-67) Total: 18 bytes
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Please see the LICENSE file for copyright information (GPLv2)
libbb is BusyBox's utility library. All of this stuff used to be stuffed into
a single file named utility.c. When I split utility.c to create libbb, some of
the very oldest stuff ended up without their original copyright and licensing
information (which is now lost in the mists of time). If you see something
that you wrote that is mis-attributed, do let me know so we can fix that up.
Erik Andersen
<andersen@codepoet.org>
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