From the cli, if you issue the help command, you remain within the gluster> prompt. gluster> help volume info [all|<VOLNAME>] - list information of all volumes ... help - display command options However, if you issue: gluster> volume help volume info [all|<VOLNAME>] - list information of all volumes ... volume reset <VOLNAME> - reset all the reconfigured options [root@edw-gc01 ~]# <--- you get dropped to notmal shell
PATCH: http://patches.gluster.com/patch/5689 in master (cli: remove special behavior for help commands without readline)
removed special behavior of exiting from shell when readline is not enabled to fix the bug.