Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 1/8] iplink: Return from function instead of calling exit()

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:08:21 -0800

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:39:51 +0200
Serhey Popovych <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Serhey Popovych <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  ip/iplink.c |   12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ip/iplink.c b/ip/iplink.c
> index 74c377c..a2c8108 100644
> --- a/ip/iplink.c
> +++ b/ip/iplink.c
> @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ int iplink_parse(int argc, char **argv, struct iplink_req *req,
>  			NEXT_ARG();
>  			if (xdp_parse(&argc, &argv, req, dev_index,
>  				      generic, drv, offload))
> -				exit(-1);
> +				return -1;
>  		} else if (strcmp(*argv, "netns") == 0) {
>  			NEXT_ARG();
>  			if (netns != -1)
> @@ -972,12 +972,12 @@ static int iplink_modify(int cmd, unsigned int flags, int argc, char **argv)
>  		if (!dev) {
>  			fprintf(stderr,
>  				"Not enough information: \"dev\" argument is required.\n");
> -			exit(-1);
> +			return -1;
>  		}
>  		if (cmd == RTM_NEWLINK && index) {
>  			fprintf(stderr,
>  				"index can be used only when creating devices.\n");
> -			exit(-1);
> +			return -1;
>  		}
>  
>  		req.i.ifi_index = ll_name_to_index(dev);
> @@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ static int do_set(int argc, char **argv)
>  	if (!dev) {
>  		fprintf(stderr,
>  			"Not enough of information: \"dev\" argument is required.\n");
> -		exit(-1);
> +		return -1;
>  	}
>  
>  	if (newaddr || newbrd) {
> @@ -1553,7 +1553,7 @@ static int iplink_afstats(int argc, char **argv)
>  			fprintf(stderr,
>  				"Command \"%s\" is unknown, try \"ip link help\".\n",
>  				*argv);
> -			exit(-1);
> +			return -1;
>  		}
>  
>  		argv++; argc--;
> @@ -1648,5 +1648,5 @@ int do_iplink(int argc, char **argv)
>  
>  	fprintf(stderr, "Command \"%s\" is unknown, try \"ip link help\".\n",
>  		*argv);
> -	exit(-1);
> +	return -1;
>  }

Not sure I like this. If given bad input in batch it is better to stop and exit
rather than continuing with more bad data.