[PATCH] Cygwin: utils: chattr: Improve option parsing.
Christian Franke
Christian.Franke@t-online.de
Thu May 20 19:48:39 GMT 2021
Hi Corinna,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> On May 20 12:01, Christian Franke wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On May 19 17:46, Christian Franke wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> $ egrep 'ACL|--r' chattr.c
>>>> "Get POSIX ACL information\n"
>>>> " -R, --recursive recursively list attributes of directories and
>>>> their \n"
>>> Oops. Please patch while you're at it...
>>> ...
>>>> From 865a5a50501f3fd0cf5ed28500d3e6e45a6456de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>> From: Christian Franke<...>
>>>> Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 16:24:47 +0200
>>>> Subject: [PATCH] Cygwin: utils: chattr: Improve option parsing.
>>>>
>>>> Interpret '-h' as '--help' only if last argument.
>>> Who was the idiot using -h for help *and* the hidden flag? *blush*
>>>
>>> I'd vote for --help to be changed to -H for the single character
>>> option. The help output is very unlikely to be used in scripts,
>>> so that shouldn't be a backward compat problem.
>> New patch attached.
>>
>> Note that there is now the possibly unexpected (& hidden) behavior that
>> 'chattr -h' without file argument clears the hidden attribute of cwd.
> Uhm... why?
Because chattr uses '.' as default if no FILE argument is specified. The
same applies to all other '+-=MODE' arguments. The patch does not change
this behavior but of course enables it for '-h'.
> Isn't that easily avoidable?
Yes: make FILE argument mandatory - but this would break backward
compatibility.
Another behavior (possibly inherited from lsattr) is also not very useful:
'chattr +-=MODE DIRECTORY' also changes the attributes of all elements
in the directory (not recursively). It is not possible to solely change
the attributes of a directory except if it is the current directory and
no FILE argument is passed. Fixing this would again break backward
compatibility.
Regards,
Christian
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