[Nagiosplug-devel] changing check_disk -E behaviour

[Ton Voon]

On 17 Sep 2007, at 14:40, Matthias Eble wrote:

> 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).

I think this is an acceptable change in command line options - just  
make sure it is clearly written in the CHANGES file.

Ton

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