[Nagiosplug-devel] changing check_disk -E behaviour

[Andreas Ericsson]

Matthias Eble wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I'm currently working on check_disk to let users ignore 
> mountpoints/devices based on regular expressions.
> 
> There seems to be a problem with parsing of the options I want to hear 
> your opinion about.
> 
> To compare the regexes against devname and mountdir, the best_match 
> pointer needs to be set. Unfortunately this clashes with -E (exact 
> match) which is allowed to be specified everywhere in the command line.
> 
> I'd suggest to change -E to be only allowed prior to -p and -r 
> arguments. This would cause an incompatibility but would also become 
> revealed instantly after upgrading (check_disk exiting UNKNOWN).
> 

Hand-parse the arguments once before going through the optind routines.
That way you can bail with a sane error message.

> Thanks
> Matthias
> 
> 
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