Bug 1972

Summary:	CommandLine duplicate argument handling
Product:	ns-3	Reporter:	Tom Henderson <tomh>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Peter Barnes <pdbarnes>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	ns-bugs
Priority:	P5
Version:	pre-release
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Attachments:	documentation to clarify the behavior with repeated argument

Description Tom Henderson 2014-09-03 09:42:46 UTC

Described in this thread.

http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2014-September/012228.html

Either documentation patch or patch to prevent the problem.

I would propose that a duplicate argument would trigger an NS_FATAL_ERROR(msg).

Comment 1 Peter Barnes 2014-09-12 18:14:51 UTC

Created attachment 1875 [details]
documentation to clarify the behavior with repeated argument

Comment 2 Tom Henderson 2014-09-15 17:38:23 UTC

I pushed the documentation patch in changeset 10953:6751a4094ffd; do we want to leave this bug open for further work, or close it now?

Comment 3 Peter Barnes 2015-11-11 23:34:43 UTC

Last call.  

Updated docs here:
https://www.nsnam.org/docs/release/3.24/doxygen/classns3_1_1_command_line.html#details

Note the verbiage beginning:
"Arguments can be repeated on the command line; the last value given will be the final value used. For example,"