Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
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The situation with --chain is complicated. The old code tried to use "+…" in getopt_long() to stop option parsing. But it didn't actually work. This logic was originally added in8072a7e6a9.ef9c12b157added an comment about 'optind=0' which explains why the code doesn't work, but the code wasn't changed. To wit: $ userdbctl.old --no-pager --chain ssh-authorized-keys zbyszek -- /bin/echo --asdf --asdf $ userdbctl.old --no-pager --chain ssh-authorized-keys zbyszek /bin/echo -- --asdf --asdf $ userdbctl.old --no-pager --chain ssh-authorized-keys zbyszek /bin/echo --asdf userdbctl.old: unrecognized option '--asdf' (Basically, if "--" is used, it can be anywhere, since getopt_long() doesn't do anything special after --chain and looks for the next option. There were some tests of --chain, but they all used the username as the positional argument, so it wasn't misinterpreted as an option.) This behaviour is preserved in the conversion. --help is generally the same except for expected formatting changes. --json= is moved above between --output= and -j. For some reason it was further down. Co-developed-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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