[Linux-ha-dev] [RFC] Change the behavior of cibadmin on dangerous options

[Andrew Beekhof]

ah, sorry, i hadn't seen this patch when i replied earlier.
i'll apply something like this tomorrow (i might standardize the on -- 
force though as its used in other tools too).


On Dec 4, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Xinwei Hu wrote:

> 2007/12/5, Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb at suse.de>:
>> On 2007-12-04T21:29:35, Xinwei Hu <hxinwei at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> The more dangerous commands usually require a --force option on  
>>>> other
>>>> tools. (fsck, mkfs, rpm, drbdadm, ...)
>>> The reason that I don't go this way is concerning the portability.
>>> getopt_long is not a POSIX standard AFAIK.
>>
>> Then make it -f or --force; that would be acceptable as well.
>>
>>>> For cibadmin, -E, -r, (-b, -h, -l for write commands) seem safe
>>>> candidates.
>>>>
>>>> Reading y/n from stdin is not a good approach; the commands might
>>>> require the XML to be on stdin.
>>> You are right.
>>> So how about let the process give verbose warning message on  
>>> dangerous
>>> options and sleep N seconds before proceeding ?
>>
>> I don't like sleeping tools. That is annoying in scripts, and when  
>> you
>> really want the system to do something _now_.
>>
>> I prefer the -f/--force approach, as it's the most common way on
>> Unix/Linux.
> OK. I picked -Z/--do-what-i-say then. :)
> -E/-r/-w/-b/-f are considered dangerous now.
> Also,  exit when non-option ARGV-elements are found, as suggested by  
> Dejan.
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Lars
>>
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