[ovs-dev] [PATCH] utilities/ovs-vsctl.c: honor 'help' as ovs-ofctl and dpctl

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 01:58:50PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
> Currently, ovs-ofctl and ovs-dpctl allow a 'help' keyword, in addition to -h
> and --help. However, ovs-vsctl does not honor the same 'help' keyword. This
> change adds a 'help' which redirects to usage(), bringing ovs-vsctl in line
> with ovs-ofctl and ovs-dpctl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>

I agree that it's useful to add such a command, but this is a poor
implementation because it still tries to connect to the database.  For
example, on my machine here:

    blp at sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/_build(0)$ utilities/ovs-vsctl help
    ovs-vsctl: unix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock: database connection failed (No such file or directory)
    blp at sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/_build(1)$ 

Not very helpful!