Bug 459

Summary: ORB options that accept boolean arguments blindly accept non-boolean values
Product: TAO Reporter: Ossama Othman <ossama.othman>
Component: ORBAssignee: DOC Center Support List (internal) <tao-support>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: minor CC: tao-support
Priority: P2    
Version: 1.0.14   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Ossama Othman 2000-02-25 11:47:49 CST 
ORB options, such as -ORBDottedDecimalAddresses, that expect boolean arguments
(0 or 1) blindly accept any argument.

Currently all that is done is an atoi() on the argument.  This causes problems
since the following would be valid:

	-ORBDottedDecimalAddresses -ORBDebugLevel 6

The -ORBDottedDecimalAddresses option in this case would not work as expected.
In my opinion, any option that expects a boolean argument should either be
corrected to check if the argument is a valid boolean value, or the boolean
argument should be removed entirely.  There just doesn't appear to be much point
in expecting a boolean argument.  You either supply the argument or you don't.
At the very least, the checking for proper boolean arguments should be
implemented.
Comment 1 Luther Baker 2000-02-25 13:37:59 CST 
accepting....
Comment 2 Ossama Othman 2000-04-11 11:45:59 CDT 
It looks like Luther accepted this bug but didn't assign it to himself.
Comment 3 Luther Baker 2000-04-20 11:39:59 CDT 
My address is luther@cs... I will try to find a way to change it in Bugzilla. I
will also try to fix this ASAP.
Comment 4 Nanbor Wang 2001-10-21 11:25:37 CDT 
Anyone knows what is the status on this one? May be a good bug for new comers 
to fix. Can someone please fill in the status?
Comment 5 Johnny Willemsen 2006-04-05 14:06:33 CDT 
to the pool