Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc init scripts taking command line arguments

[William Hubbs]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 03:58:18PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote:
> > William Hubbs wrote:
> >> /etc/init.d/foo stop start
> >>
> >> would no longer work the way you might expect because there would be no
> >> way to tell whether start is a command or an argument to stop.
> >>
> >> What are your thoughts about this change?
> >
> > /etc/init.d/foo stop start
> >
> > along with all other commands can work like before.
> >
> > /etc/init.d/foo stop -- start
> >
> > can pass start as an argument to the stop command.
>
> I like this approach, because its use of -- continues expected
> commandline parsing behaviors from other commands, making it
> intuitive.
>
> I.e.
>
> touch -- -an-ugly-filename
> ls -l -- -an-ugly-filename
> rm -- -an-ugly-filename

Theis still breaks backward compatibility though, e.g.

/etc/init.d/foo command1 -- arg1 arg2 command2

has issues.

The other approach, which is on the bug, still has this issue, e.g.

/etc/init.d/foo command1 arg1 arg2 command2 arg3 arg4 command3 arg5

gets pretty ugly pretty quick. which arguments go with which commands is
subject to interpretation.

William