Don't override arguments set via options with positional arguments.

A number of utility programs were rather careless about paremeters
that can be set via both an option argument and a positional
argument. This leads to results which can violate the Principal
Of Least Astonishment. These changes refuse to use positional
arguments to override settings that have been made via positional
arguments. The changes are backpatched to all live branches.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/bin/scripts/createlang.c b/src/bin/scripts/createlang.c
index a36b39bdeea..ff86ec5949f 100644
--- a/src/bin/scripts/createlang.c
+++ b/src/bin/scripts/createlang.c
@@ -91,14 +91,24 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		}
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * We set dbname from positional arguments if it is not
+	 * already set by option arguments -d. If not doing
+	 * listlangs, positional dbname must follow positional
+	 * langname.
+	 */
+
 	if (argc - optind > 0)
 	{
 		if (listlangs)
-			dbname = argv[optind++];
+		{
+			if (dbname == NULL)
+				dbname = argv[optind++];
+		}
 		else
 		{
 			langname = argv[optind++];
-			if (argc - optind > 0)
+			if (argc - optind > 0 && dbname == NULL)
 				dbname = argv[optind++];
 		}
 	}