Bug 1178

Summary:	In core, CommandLine::HandleArgument function called exit
Product:	ns-3	Reporter:	YunQiang Su <wzssyqa>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	ns-bugs
Priority:	P5
Version:	pre-release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description YunQiang Su 2011-05-31 08:54:17 UTC

I believe we should not call exit() in an libraries.

This function should only return an error code to the caller, but not exit rude.

Comment 1 Mathieu Lacage 2011-07-06 19:08:06 UTC

I understand the rationale behind this bug report but the code was purposedly made to do this to save the user from having to type extra checking code (which no user would ever write anyway). You might also consider the fact that ns-3 does a lot of checks that end up as fatal assertions at runtime for errors which could be recoverable but which we decided to not recover from to simplify the code and to help users catch their errors early.