On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 04:16:21AM +0200, Ahelenia Ziemiańska wrote:
> The manual says
> COMMANDS
> These options specify the particular operation to perform.
> Only one of them can be specified at any given time.
>
> -L --dump
> List connection tracking or expectation table
>
> So, naturally, "conntrack -Lo extended" should work,
> but it doesn't, it's equivalent to "conntrack -L",
> and you need "conntrack -L -o extended".
> This violates user expectations (borne of the Utility Syntax Guidelines)
> and contradicts the manual.
>
> optarg is unused, anyway. Unclear why any of these were :: at all?
Because this supports:
-L
-L conntrack
-L expect
