But if the user wants to only pass a switch argument to post that does NOT
take an argument, it's not possible from them to get it right.
What do you propose that we do for 1.7.1?
Something like:
(in RCVDIST_SWITCHES)
X("width columns", -5, WIDTHSW) \
X("library directory", -7, LIBRARYSW) \
X("idanno number", -6, ANNOWSW) \
X("client host", -6, CLIENTSW) \
X("server host", -6, SERVERSW) \
X("port portname/number", -4, PORTSW) \
[... etc ...]
and in the case argument:
case WIDTHSW:
case LIBRARYSW:
case ANNOSW:
case CLIENTSW:
case SERVESW:
case PORTSW:
[... etc ...]
if (argp && *argp) {
vec[vecp++] = *argp++;
} else {
die("missing argument to %s", argp[-2]);
}
Basically what we do everywhere else, which honestly, should have been
done way back in 1990 when rcvdist was first committed (let's call it,
"Fixing a 28 year old bug" :-)). We can save the global fix for this for
later.
--Ken
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