Command line options after any non-hyphen arguments are silently ignored #741

1. 
   john-moffett commented at 4:37 pm on June 29, 2023: contributor

   Is there an existing issue for this?

   • I have searched the existing issues

   Current behaviour

   For example, invoking bitcoin-qt -server=1 foo -regtest on a fresh install will run mainnet instead of the expected regtest.

   Expected behaviour

   I would expect it to do one of the following:

   1. Run regtest
   2. Warn me that my arguments contained a “command” and any subsequent options were ignored
   3. Exit with an error message

   The problem is that ArgsManager::ParseParameters interprets any non-hypen (’-’ or ‘–’) arguments as “commands”, with later arguments being assigned to that command.

   This is not an issue with bitcoind since it has additional logic to detect “loose” commands and refuses to start:

   https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/c6287faae4c0e705a9258a340dfcf548906f12af/src/bitcoind.cpp#L127-L132

   Steps to reproduce

   Invoke bitcoin-qt foo -regtest on a fresh install

   Relevant log output

   No response

   How did you obtain Bitcoin Core

   Compiled from source

   What version of Bitcoin Core are you using?

   master@d6ee03507f39

   Operating system and version

   MacOS Ventura 13.5

   Machine specifications

   No response

2. john-moffett renamed this:
   Command line options after any non-dash arguments are silently ignored
   Command line options after any non-hyphen arguments are silently ignored
   on Jun 29, 2023
3. hebasto closed this on Oct 25, 2023

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4. Julio-Rats referenced this in commit afa081a39b on Jan 26, 2024
5. bitcoin-core locked this on Oct 24, 2024

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