mknod: better --help, much clearer code

function                                             old     new   delta
packed_usage                                       32066   32091     +25
mknod_main                                           173     174      +1

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/coreutils/mknod.c b/coreutils/mknod.c
index 565b33d20..d57167f7d 100644
--- a/coreutils/mknod.c
+++ b/coreutils/mknod.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 /* BB_AUDIT SUSv3 N/A -- Matches GNU behavior. */
 
 //usage:#define mknod_trivial_usage
-//usage:       "[-m MODE] " IF_SELINUX("[-Z] ") "NAME TYPE MAJOR MINOR"
+//usage:       "[-m MODE] " IF_SELINUX("[-Z] ") "NAME TYPE [MAJOR MINOR]"
 //usage:#define mknod_full_usage "\n\n"
 //usage:       "Create a special file (block, character, or pipe)\n"
 //usage:     "\n	-m MODE	Creation mode (default a=rw)"
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 //usage:     "\nTYPE:"
 //usage:     "\n	b	Block device"
 //usage:     "\n	c or u	Character device"
-//usage:     "\n	p	Named pipe (MAJOR and MINOR are ignored)"
+//usage:     "\n	p	Named pipe (MAJOR MINOR must be omitted)"
 //usage:
 //usage:#define mknod_example_usage
 //usage:       "$ mknod /dev/fd0 b 2 0\n"
@@ -47,40 +47,40 @@ static const char modes_chars[] ALIGN1 = { 'p', 'c', 'u', 'b', 0, 1, 1, 2 };
 static const mode_t modes_cubp[] = { S_IFIFO, S_IFCHR, S_IFBLK };
 
 int mknod_main(int argc, char **argv) MAIN_EXTERNALLY_VISIBLE;
-int mknod_main(int argc, char **argv)
+int mknod_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
 {
 	mode_t mode;
 	dev_t dev;
-	const char *name;
+	const char *type, *arg;
 
 	mode = getopt_mk_fifo_nod(argv);
 	argv += optind;
-	argc -= optind;
+	//argc -= optind;
 
-	if (argc >= 2) {
-		name = strchr(modes_chars, argv[1][0]);
-		if (name != NULL) {
-			mode |= modes_cubp[(int)(name[4])];
+	if (!argv[0] || !argv[1])
+		bb_show_usage();
+	type = strchr(modes_chars, argv[1][0]);
+	if (!type)
+		bb_show_usage();
 
-			dev = 0;
-			if (*name != 'p') {
-				argc -= 2;
-				if (argc == 2) {
-					/* Autodetect what the system supports; these macros should
-					 * optimize out to two constants. */
-					dev = makedev(xatoul_range(argv[2], 0, major(UINT_MAX)),
-							xatoul_range(argv[3], 0, minor(UINT_MAX)));
-				}
-			}
+	mode |= modes_cubp[(int)(type[4])];
 
-			if (argc == 2) {
-				name = *argv;
-				if (mknod(name, mode, dev) == 0) {
-					return EXIT_SUCCESS;
-				}
-				bb_simple_perror_msg_and_die(name);
-			}
-		}
+	dev = 0;
+	arg = argv[2];
+	if (*type != 'p') {
+		if (!argv[2] || !argv[3])
+			bb_show_usage();
+		/* Autodetect what the system supports; these macros should
+		 * optimize out to two constants. */
+		dev = makedev(xatoul_range(argv[2], 0, major(UINT_MAX)),
+				xatoul_range(argv[3], 0, minor(UINT_MAX)));
+		arg = argv[4];
 	}
-	bb_show_usage();
+	if (arg)
+		bb_show_usage();
+
+	if (mknod(argv[0], mode, dev) != 0) {
+		bb_simple_perror_msg_and_die(argv[0]);
+	}
+	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }