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Previously, Daikon printed an error and the usage message for an unrecognized command-line option, but exited with status 0. Scripts that invoke Daikon, such as runcluster.pl (see #856), could not detect the failure.

Previously, Daikon printed an error and the usage message but exited with
status 0, so scripts such as runcluster.pl could not detect the failure.
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The change adds DaikonGetopt for command-line option parsing, including invalid-option reporting, optional help handling, and positional-argument extraction. Daikon tools and runtime-checker entry points adopt shared parsing or update argument validation and usage output. The change adds option-handling tests, updates documentation, and removes Diff’s ineffective -u and -z options.

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Invalid options now fail rather than appear successful, and the inspected tools retain validation before sensitive operations. No introduced security weakness was established, but the trust level of external callers and their inputs remains unresolved.

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  • inferred — If an attacker controls invocation arguments, the relevant scope is the invoking process's accessible filesystem and classpath. WriteViolationFile intentionally loads and invokes the selected class in that process. Its reflection and report-writing behavior is unchanged; the PR adds leading-option validation without introducing a separate privileged identity.

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  • inferred — The routed SplitDtrace candidate did not establish a PR-introduced attack path: malformed options and help terminate before its input/output operations, while operand-count and suffix checks remain in place. The test inputs establish parser behavior, not the trustworthiness of external callers; that proof gap remains open.

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  • observed — Runtime instrumentation catches malformed-option errors before reading serialized invariants or parsing source files. Help returns without instrumentation. After parsing, the handler still checks invariant and Java filename suffixes; centralized parsing does not add authentication or authorization.

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  • observed — SplitDtrace publishes output directly to a deterministic filename. Stream closure does not provide atomic publication, rollback, or concurrency isolation: failure can leave partial output and repetition can overwrite it. The full base/head comparison shows this lifecycle predates the PR, so it is not retained as an introduced architecture concern.
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…tatus

Add Daikon.badOptionError, which names the bad option and suggests --help
instead of printing the full usage message.  Use it in every tool that
uses getopt.
…ster

SampleTester and the generated SplitterFactoryTest now use
Daikon.badOptionError.  DtraceDiff and SampleTester passed "h:" to getopt,
so -h required an argument.  SampleTester also did not register --help.
The badOptionError hint now suggests -h, which every tool supports.
…ools

Add DaikonGetopt, which suppresses Getopt's own messages and reports whether
an option is unrecognized, ambiguous, missing its argument, or given an
unexpected argument.  Register --help in DtraceDiff, UnionInvariants,
ExtractConsequent, and InvariantChecker.  Convert InstrumentHandler.  Make
SampleTester and SplitterFactoryTest exit cleanly on a bad option.  Test
DaikonGetopt directly rather than via Daikon.mainHelper, which resets global
state.
- DaikonGetopt overrides getopt() to throw the UserError, so callers need no '?' case.
- Use Getopt's longind instead of re-implementing long-option matching.
- Remove the short-only constructor, which misparsed long options.
- InstrumentHandler registers --help, does not call System.exit for -h, and omits the redundant usage hint.
- Generated SplitterFactoryTest registers --help, throws NormalTermination for -h, and shows its own name in the usage message.
- Describe the behavior change in the changelog.
…lts, help to stdout

* DaikonGetopt: describe "--=foo" as unrecognized; remove always-true conditions.
* Throw BugInDaikon from every option switch's default branch.
* InstrumentHandler: fail on an unhandled long option; print -h usage to stdout.
* Generated SplitterFactoryTest: main runs the tests, so -s takes effect.
…-h/--help

* DaikonGetopt optionally takes a usage message and handles -h and --help;
  tools no longer duplicate that handling.  It also treats ':' as a bad
  option.  New DaikonGetopt.nonOptionArgs for tools that take only files.
* Tools that parsed arguments by hand (ReadTrace, SplitDtrace,
  DtraceNonceFixer, CreateSpinfoC, TraceSelect, runtimechecker.Main,
  WriteViolationFile) accept -h/--help; AnnotateNullable and BuildJDK
  accept --help; Chicory and DynComp exit 0 for --help.
* Unhandled long options are a BugInDaikon, not a user error.
* InvariantChecker no longer registers the unimplemented --ppt-select-pattern.
* Diff with no input files is a user error.
* Generated SplitterFactoryTest prints failure traces and pluralizes.
…OCLETPATH

ParameterDoclet loads daikon.Daikon reflectively, and verifying Daikon now
requires loading DaikonGetopt and its superclass gnu.getopt.Getopt.

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* Annotate accepts -i again; drop the unimplemented -r from its usage message.
* TraceSelect rejects unrecognized switches, accepts -h/--help among its
  options, and reports a non-integer -SEED argument as a user error.
* Replace Daikon.isHelpArg with DaikonGetopt.argsAfterLeadingOptions, used
  by TraceSelect, WriteViolationFile, and runtimechecker.Main.
* ReadTrace and CreateSpinfoC use the main/mainHelper split.
* Remove the orphaned StackAr-u.txt.goal.

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- CreateSpinfoC: parse while the input stream is open; exit non-zero on
  parse or output errors; reject a file name with no extension.
- TraceSelect: an unrecognized switch before the first .dtrace/.decls
  file starts the Daikon arguments instead of being an error; handle
  -h/--help directly.
- DaikonGetopt: drop the unused progname parameter; accept a
  Supplier<String> usage message so it is computed only when needed.
- runtimechecker: compute Main's usage lazily; InstrumentHandler uses
  DaikonGetopt's help handling.
- Annotate: remove stale -r from Javadoc.
- BadOptionTest: capture usage output; test TraceSelect help.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… DaikonGetopt

- TraceSelect: collect Daikon args during parsing; TraceSelect switches are
  never forwarded and no longer cause earlier Daikon args to be dropped.
- CreateSpinfoC: treat '/' as a separator on Windows when finding the extension.
- CommandHandler: a missing .doc resource is a BugInDaikon.
- runtimechecker Main: reuse usageMessageString().
- DaikonGetopt: check that optstring/longopts do not already contain h/help.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…, DaikonGetopt argv copy

- TraceSelect.mainHelper resets all static state on each call.
- TraceSelect passes every non-TraceSelect argument to Daikon rather than
  silently dropping arguments before the first .dtrace/.decls/switch.
- runtimechecker Main: a failure printing usage no longer prevents exit;
  remove unused usageMessage(List, PrintStream).
- DaikonGetopt does not permute the caller's argv.
- Annotate usage documents --help.

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Superseded by #884, #885, #886, #887, and #888, which together contain all of this pull request's changes.

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