[libvirt] [PATCH 1/3] virt-xml-validate: add --help/--version option

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon Aug 19 22:58:56 UTC 2013


On 08/19/2013 04:43 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> All good tools should have --help and --version output :)
> 
> * tools/virt-xml-validate.in: Add option parsing.  Output errors
> to stderr.  Update documentation to match.
> * tools/Makefile.am (virt-xml-validate): Substitute version.
> 

> +  --) shift ;;
> +  -*)
> +    echo "$0: unrecognized option '$1'" >&2
> +    exit 1 ;;
> +esac
> +
>  XMLFILE="$1"

This treats '-' as an unrecognized option (which is a bit misleading,
since in POSIX terminology a lone - is NOT an option but an argument).
It also raises the question - should we allow for an XMLFILE of '-' to
mean reading from stdin, the way POSIX recommends?  That is, should we
support:

virsh dumpxml $dom | virt-xml-validate -

as a valid mode of execution?  Right now, that won't work (we consume
stdin while probing the type, so that it no longer has contents for the
actual validation pass), so it would need a separate patch to make the
shell script smarter about reusing an input file, which may turn out to
be a fair chunk of work before we get there (and it would probably be me
stuck implementing it...).  And if '-' works to specify stdin, why not
also let this tool operate in filter mode (no arguments implies reading
from stdin, just as an explicit - would).

I guess the fact that I changed '-' to raise an error in this patch is a
minor change for people used to using '-' as the name of a file in the
current directory; but as that is not typical usage, and as they can
work around that by using './-', I don't consider it a regression [but I
_will_ update the commit message to mention that this is an intentional
change in corner-case behavior]

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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