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Bug 305576 - Make glib require argument to G_OPTION_ARG_STRING options.
Make glib require argument to G_OPTION_ARG_STRING options.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: High enhancement
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-05-26 19:24 UTC by Björn Lindqvist
Modified: 2005-05-27 18:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Björn Lindqvist 2005-05-26 19:24:55 UTC 
If you specify an option like this:

{"foo", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &bar, NULL, NULL}

and call your program with ./program --foo, glib thinks that you sent an empty
string ("") as option foo's value. It is not quite right and different from how
getopt and popt does it. Instead it should throw an error with the message
"Missing argument to option --foo".
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2005-05-27 18:30:52 UTC 
2005-05-27  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

	* glib/goption.c (parse_short_option, parse_long_option):
	Return an error if an option is missing its argument.  (#305576,
	Björn Lindqvist)

	* tests/option-test.c (missing_arg_test): Add a testcase.