Re: debugging config files options

Daniel Feenberg via curl-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Thu, 4 Apr 2024, Daniel Stenberg via curl-users wrote:

>
> A challenge is that ~/.curlrc is read and parsed before any command line 
> options. So how do we active the config file debug mode?
>
> 1. If -v or --verbose is used as the *first option* on the command line.
>

Does the -v option provide significant additional information during 
parsing? Many commands have -v or -d options, and .rc files - do we know 
what they do? My guess is that for most commands -v doesn't affect 
parsing, so there isn't a problem for them.

What is the reason to only examine the first option? Even if documented, 
that restriction would be missed by most users. How costly would it be to 
scan the entire command line? Would that mean having a fixed maximum 
length for the command line?

Sorry for all the questions.

Daniel Feenberg
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