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Description of problem:
Very minor issue, but possibly confusing and may/could cause problems with higher-level tools executing the docker daemon.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
docker-1.8.2-10.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Trivial

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /usr/bin/docker daemon -g fdsafsd -b dsca -s fdsafs -e feae -- --name=flag_cGpa

Actual results:

docker: "daemon" requires 0 arguments.
See '/usr/bin/docker daemon --help'.

Usage:	docker daemon [OPTIONS]

Enable daemon mode

Expected results:
flag provided but not defined: --name
See '/usr/bin/docker daemon --help'.

Additional info:
Docker is parsing the '--' as an argument whereas a vast majority of other CLI's follows GNU usage conventions where '--' signals the end of optional (non-positional) arguments.  For example, if you wanted to pass in a literal '--name=flag_cGpa' as an argument (instead of an option).  Though docker currently doesn't accept positional arguments in 'daemon' mode, it may in the future.  Also tooling which executes docker CLI may use this convention, causing false-failures. Though it could be a stretch, which is why I think this is a minor issue.

Covered by automated test: https://github.com/autotest/autotest-docker/tree/master/subtests/docker_cli/negativeusage

Shishir can you take care of this.

After discussion with Chris, we both agree this is a minor issue.
This does work for `docker run`. however `docker daemon` doesn't treat -- in the correct unix way.

Docker daemon is a delicate area in upstream. and with my past experience it can go into months of discussion (time and effort) for this minor issue, if we open this issue upstream. We can use that time in more meaningful efforts.

Thanks Chris for understanding. I am going to close this one for now.

Shishir