"This function was not updating the argc and argv pointers to reflect

the arguments it consumed, which means the calling function encountered
them as well.  As a result, a command like "ip -6 addr" was yielding a usage
error." - Philip Blundell

diff --git a/networking/libiproute/ip_parse_common_args.c b/networking/libiproute/ip_parse_common_args.c
index 21e9f74ba189bd62e792f8ff57efcec038805873..1f3d739337f779654b33be53584fae55f37e1c0c 100644 (file)
--- a/networking/libiproute/ip_parse_common_args.c
+++ b/networking/libiproute/ip_parse_common_args.c
@@ -71,4 +71,6 @@ void ip_parse_common_args(int *argcp, char ***argvp)
                argc--; argv++;
        }
        _SL_ = oneline ? "\\" : "\n" ;
+       *argcp = argc;
+       *argvp = argv;
 }