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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] eal:Add new API for parsing args at
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 09:55:42 -0400
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> That said, I'm not sure theres much value in adding this to the API.  For one,
> it implies that dpdk arguments need to come first on the command line.  While
> all the example applications do that, theres no requirement that they do so, and
> this function silently implies that they have to, so any existing applications
> in the wild that violate that assumption are enjoined from using this

I found that the only way to support daemon command line args is to put local
arguments first, then call EAL to parse it's args.