mariadb-nofailonhelp.patch
[MDEV-4905] Getting mysqld --help as root exits with 1 Created: 2013-08-16 Updated: 2015-04-17 Due: 2013-08-22 Resolved: 2013-08-20 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | MariaDB Server |
| Component/s: | None |
| Affects Version/s: | 5.5.32 |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | Bug | Priority: | Minor |
| Reporter: | Honza Horak | Assignee: | Unassigned |
| Resolution: | Not a Bug | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | upstream | ||
| Environment: |
Linux, Fedora |
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| Attachments: |
mariadb-nofailonhelp.patch
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| Description |
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I'm on Fedora and try to get verbose help as root:
It kinda works but the exit code is 1, which is not what I'd expect, since I wanted just help message. How to repeat:
Actual result: Reported also on http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=70058 Proposed patch is attached. |
| Comments |
| Comment by Sergei Golubchik [ 2013-08-18 ] |
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I'm not sure it's a good idea. If you run "mysqld --help" you will get the exit code 0. But "mysqld --help --verbose" prints values of all variables and command-line options. To do that it reads config files and load plugins (but doesn't run them). If something will fail during this process, it'll exit with the code 1. It means that if you start the server exactly the same way — it'll fail, it won't start. And if you start the server differently — your help output was misleading, it contained different values or even a different set of options as compared to what your running server would have. This is what the exit code means — you should not trust this help output, it is not what your server will have. |
| Comment by Honza Horak [ 2013-08-20 ] |
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Ok, thanks for the explanation. |
| Comment by Elena Stepanova [ 2015-04-17 ] |
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Upstream bug was fixed in 5.5.38, 5.6.17, 5.7.4. |