[PATCH weston 3/3] weston-launch: improve help text for -u and -t

Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 14:24:34 UTC 2017


From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>

Explain that -u requires root and -t requires -u. Most importantly,
document in what format does -t expect the tty to be given.

It has been confusing, because Weston's --tty option takes an integer,
weston-launch takes a full device path.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
---
 libweston/weston-launch.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libweston/weston-launch.c b/libweston/weston-launch.c
index 6a7a7649..79a02506 100644
--- a/libweston/weston-launch.c
+++ b/libweston/weston-launch.c
@@ -676,8 +676,10 @@ static void
 help(const char *name)
 {
 	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s [args...] [-- [weston args..]]\n", name);
-	fprintf(stderr, "  -u, --user      Start session as specified username\n");
-	fprintf(stderr, "  -t, --tty       Start session on alternative tty\n");
+	fprintf(stderr, "  -u, --user      Start session as specified username,\n"
+			"                  e.g. -u joe, requires root.\n");
+	fprintf(stderr, "  -t, --tty       Start session on alternative tty,\n"
+			"                  e.g. -t /dev/tty4, requires -u option.\n");
 	fprintf(stderr, "  -v, --verbose   Be verbose\n");
 	fprintf(stderr, "  -h, --help      Display this help message\n");
 }
-- 
2.13.6



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