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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-12-11 11:59:31 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-12-12 12:19:55 +0100
commita3fee8b6afdbb70317d2124d5a3bb0d2887ab31b (patch)
treeea6ac15d733cedc9f8a201da7b65b43a87f50078 /src
parentda4793e949363242400ad10bc739e3db4319755f (diff)
downloadcoreutils-a3fee8b6afdbb70317d2124d5a3bb0d2887ab31b.tar.xz
ls: give a more useful diagnostic for a bogus --time-style arg
* src/ls.c (decode_switches): Replace our use of XARGMATCH with open-coded version so that we can give a better diagnostic. * tests/ls/time-style-diag: New file. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it. Reported by Dan Jacobson in http://bugs.gnu.org/10253 with suggestions from Eric Blake and Paul Eggert.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/ls.c72
1 files changed, 48 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 0d64bab15..672237ada 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -2039,33 +2039,57 @@ decode_switches (int argc, char **argv)
long_time_format[1] = p1;
}
else
- switch (XARGMATCH ("time style", style,
- time_style_args,
- time_style_types))
- {
- case full_iso_time_style:
- long_time_format[0] = long_time_format[1] =
- "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%N %z";
- break;
+ {
+ ptrdiff_t res = argmatch (style, time_style_args,
+ (char const *) time_style_types,
+ sizeof (*time_style_types));
+ if (res < 0)
+ {
+ /* This whole block used to be a simple use of XARGMATCH.
+ but that didn't print the "posix-"-prefixed variants or
+ the "+"-prefixed format string option upon failure. */
+ argmatch_invalid ("time style", style, res);
+
+ /* The following is a manual expansion of argmatch_valid,
+ but with the added "+ ..." description and the [posix-]
+ prefixes prepended. Note that this simplification works
+ only because all four existing time_style_types values
+ are distinct. */
+ fputs (_("Valid arguments are:\n"), stderr);
+ char const *const *p = time_style_args;
+ while (*p)
+ fprintf (stderr, " - [posix-]%s\n", *p++);
+ fputs (_(" - +FORMAT (e.g., +%H:%M) for a `date'-style"
+ " format\n"), stderr);
+ usage (LS_FAILURE);
+ }
+ switch (res)
+ {
+ case full_iso_time_style:
+ long_time_format[0] = long_time_format[1] =
+ "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%N %z";
+ break;
- case long_iso_time_style:
- long_time_format[0] = long_time_format[1] = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M";
- break;
+ case long_iso_time_style:
+ long_time_format[0] = long_time_format[1] = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M";
+ break;
- case iso_time_style:
- long_time_format[0] = "%Y-%m-%d ";
- long_time_format[1] = "%m-%d %H:%M";
- break;
+ case iso_time_style:
+ long_time_format[0] = "%Y-%m-%d ";
+ long_time_format[1] = "%m-%d %H:%M";
+ break;
+
+ case locale_time_style:
+ if (hard_locale (LC_TIME))
+ {
+ int i;
+ for (i = 0; i < 2; i++)
+ long_time_format[i] =
+ dcgettext (NULL, long_time_format[i], LC_TIME);
+ }
+ }
+ }
- case locale_time_style:
- if (hard_locale (LC_TIME))
- {
- int i;
- for (i = 0; i < 2; i++)
- long_time_format[i] =
- dcgettext (NULL, long_time_format[i], LC_TIME);
- }
- }
/* Note we leave %5b etc. alone so user widths/flags are honored. */
if (strstr (long_time_format[0], "%b")
|| strstr (long_time_format[1], "%b"))