Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] qemu-img: Fix handling of multiply specified options

[Markus Armbruster]

Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> writes:

> If you specify the same option more than once (e.g. -o cluster_size=4k
> -o lazy_refcounts=on), qemu-img silently ignores all but the last one. This

Sounds like perfectly common behavior to me.

> series fixes it to either consider all options or to give an error message.

Doesn't this break usage like "Compiled-in default is no good for me,
create wrapper script setting my defaults followed by "$@", then
override them on command line"?

> Boolean option can still be given more than once as they aren't problematic
> in this respect (ten times -q is still quiet).

Unless it's a toggle, but I sure hope we don't have those.