Normalize help flags of tools in jdk?
Lindenmaier, Goetz
goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com
Thu Oct 5 16:11:58 UTC 2017
Hi,
I would like to normalize the help flags of the tools in jdk/bin.
java accepts -?, -h and --help. I think that's a good set the others
should support, too.
If this is appreciated, I would complete this webrev to cover
all the cases where this is doable with acceptable effort:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/wr17/helpMessage/webrev/
Some tools exit with '1' after displaying the help message,
while most exit with '0'. Is that intended?
See also the test I added, it's implemented similar to
tools/launcher/VersionCheck.java.
Best regards,
Goetz.
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