From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tiwei Bie Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal/bsd: reinitialize optind and optreset to 1 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:28:44 +0800 Message-ID: <20151014022843.GA26774@dell> References: <1444726446-8106-1-git-send-email-btw@mail.ustc.edu.cn> <1444726446-8106-2-git-send-email-btw@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" To: Don Provan Return-path: Received: from ustc.edu.cn (smtp2.ustc.edu.cn [202.38.64.46]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05675693 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 04:28:58 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 05:14:38PM +0000, Don Provan wrote: > Actually, this is a good opportunity to fix a bug that's been in this code forever: it shouldn't be resetting optind to some arbitrary value: it should be saving optind (and optarg and optopt) at the beginning, initializing optind to 1 before calling getopt_long(), then restoring all the values after. (And, from what you're saying, optreset should be handled the same as optind.) > It is designed to have DPDK's parameters specified in the front of the cmd line and terminated by '--'. Or at least, you should put DPDK's parameters together and terminate them by '--'. And 1 or 0 are not some arbitrary values. They are used to put the index back to the beginning of the new argv[] array. > This avoids broken behavior if rte_eal_init() is called by code that's in the middle of using getopt() to parse its own unrelated argc/argv parameters. > We shouldn't mix up DPDK's parameters and application's parameters. And we should group them using '--'. Best, Tiwei Bie > -don provan > dprovan@bivio.net > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tiwei Bie [mailto:btw@mail.ustc.edu.cn] > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 1:54 AM > To: dev@dpdk.org > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/bsd: reinitialize optind and optreset to 1 > > The variable optind must be reinitialized to 1 in order to skip over argv[0] on FreeBSD. Because getopt() on FreeBSD will return -1 when it meets an argument which doesn't start with '-'. > > The variable optreset is provided on FreeBSD to indicate the additional set of calls to getopt(). So, also reinitialize it to 1. > > Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie > --- > lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c index 1b6f705..35feaee 100644 > --- a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c > @@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ eal_log_level_parse(int argc, char **argv) > break; > } > > - optind = 0; /* reset getopt lib */ > + optind = 1; /* reset getopt lib */ > + optreset = 1; > } > > /* Parse the argument given in the command line of the application */ @@ -403,7 +404,8 @@ eal_parse_args(int argc, char **argv) > if (optind >= 0) > argv[optind-1] = prgname; > ret = optind-1; > - optind = 0; /* reset getopt lib */ > + optind = 1; /* reset getopt lib */ > + optreset = 1; > return ret; > } > > -- > 2.6.0 > > >