Bug 444444 - xpvm handles cmd line parameter "-v" incorrectly
Summary: xpvm handles cmd line parameter "-v" incorrectly
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: pvm
Version: 4.6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Doug Ledford
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-28 13:46 UTC by Milos Malik
Modified: 2008-12-23 18:22 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-06-19 17:18:42 UTC
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Description Milos Malik 2008-04-28 13:46:39 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080416 Fedora/2.0.0.14-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.14

Description of problem:
The usage message of xpvm claims that command line parameter "-v" doesn't require any argument, but the reality is different...

$ xpvm -H
usage:  xpvm [ hostfile ] [ -PO ] [ -T trace ] [ -N name ]
         [ -M nbytes ] [ -HSetv ]

where:
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hostfile   = Alternate XPVM Hostfile (~/.xpvm_hosts)
-P         = Start XPVM in PlayBack Mode
-O         = Start XPVM in OverWrite Mode (default)
-T trace   = Use "trace" as Default Trace File
-N name    = Use "name" as Local Network Hostname
-M nbytes  = Set Default Message Size to "nbytes"
-H         = Print This Help Information
-S         = Dump SDDF Trace File Headers (and exit)
-e         = Dump Raw PVM Event Text
-t         = Text Mode, No Animation in Views
-v         = Verbose Operation


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pvm-gui-3.4.5-10

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. xpvm -v


Actual Results:
xpvm prints following message and exits:

Application initialization failed: "-v" option requires an additional argument
% 

Expected Results:
xpvm runs in verbose mode

Additional info:

Comment 1 Doug Ledford 2008-06-19 17:18:42 UTC
I'm closing this out as WONTFIX.  The xpvm program is a graphical tool and
doesn't really expect to be running in text mode by default, but in case you do
specify text mode, then the verbose flag is available.  So, even though the
message isn't real clear, the problem is that telling xpvm to be verbose (which
implies text console verbosity) *does* require an additional argument: text mode.


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