Bug 213846

Summary: runcon and double-dash arg separator
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Bryn M. Reeves <bmr>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 5.0CC: meyering
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Document use of '--' with runcon
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Correct documentation of command args and '--' none

Description Bryn M. Reeves 2006-11-03 12:25:26 UTC 
Like other tools, runcon needs a '--' separator between the runcon arguments and
the arguments of the command to be run. This causes confusion for some users.

Documenting the use of '--' in the man page as sudo does would help, without
needing to change the way runcon parses its command line arguments.
Comment 1 Bryn M. Reeves 2006-11-03 12:25:28 UTC 
Created attachment 140240 [details]
Document use of '--' with runcon
Comment 2 Bryn M. Reeves 2006-11-03 12:37:15 UTC 
The man page is also broken in that it states "Any additional arguments after
COMMAND are interpreted as arguments to the command.", which does not reflect
current behavior.
Comment 3 Bryn M. Reeves 2006-11-03 12:39:10 UTC 
Created attachment 140241 [details]
Correct documentation of command args and '--'
Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2006-11-10 17:35:25 UTC 
Fixed in coreutils-5.97-14.fc7.  '\f8' corrected to '\fB'.
Comment 5 Bryn M. Reeves 2006-11-10 17:42:06 UTC 
latest coreutils release I can see in RHEL5 is coreutils-5.97-11.
Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2006-11-10 18:01:28 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
Comment 7 James Laska 2006-12-13 21:47:34 UTC 
Marking as VERIFIED based on comment#4
Comment 8 Jay Turner 2006-12-19 15:47:09 UTC 
Need to look at this one in more detail, as the latest RHEL5 tree includes
coreutils-5.97-12.1.el5.
Comment 9 Jay Turner 2006-12-19 19:24:22 UTC 
Fix confirmed with coreutils-5.97-12.1.el5 which is included in the latest RHEL5
trees.