Il mar 16 feb 2021, 15:52 Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> ha
scritto:

> > It's just an example that the prevalence of "nowait" over "wait" is
> simply because the default of "server" is false while the default of "wait"
> is true. Any boolean option whose default is true could benefit from a
> "no"-prefixed short form. But I am pretty sure that there are users in the
> wild for noipv4 or noipv6.
>
> I think 'nowait' is special only because for so long our documentation
> has recommended 'server,nowait' (and possibly also because inetd
> uses 'nowait'?). I don't think it's inherently much better than
> "wait=off" or whatever. I just think that if we have a situation
> where exactly 1 boolean option has very widespread use of 'nofoo' then
> it's worth special casing it.
>

If the point is just the one option that needs to be special cased because
it's in the documentation, that also applies at a higher level to -chardev:
let's just not warn for that one, and that's the end of the discussion.

Paolo


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