On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 11:40:22PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Tue,  7 Apr 2026 13:16:25 +1000
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > Port specifier strings are made up of ',' separated chunks.  Rework the
> > logic we use to step through the chunks.
> > 
> > Specifically, maintain a pointer to the end of each chunk as well as the
> > start.  This is not really used yet, but will be useful in future.
> > 
> > This also has side effect on semantics.  Previously an empty specifier (0
> > chunks) was not accepted.  Now it is, and will be treated as an "exclude
> > only" spec which excludes only ephemeral ports.
> 
> Not really, because getopt_long() wants an argument for those options
> anyway.

This allows an *empty* specifier, not a missing one.  i.e.
	$ pasta -t '' -u ''

That's a kind of weird thing to do, but it does work after this patch.

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