Make bitcoind invalid argument error message specific

The current message is not helpful. Hardly anyone even remembers that
bitcoind used to be a cli utility, let alone new users. Print what the
actual problem is.
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Wladimir J. van der Laan 2017-05-24 09:28:51 +02:00
parent 7e96ecf075
commit cd5622dcaf

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@ -117,17 +117,14 @@ bool AppInit(int argc, char* argv[])
return false;
}
// Command-line RPC
bool fCommandLine = false;
for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++)
if (!IsSwitchChar(argv[i][0]) && !boost::algorithm::istarts_with(argv[i], "bitcoin:"))
fCommandLine = true;
if (fCommandLine)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Error: There is no RPC client functionality in bitcoind anymore. Use the bitcoin-cli utility instead.\n");
// Error out when loose non-argument tokens are encountered on command line
for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
if (!IsSwitchChar(argv[i][0])) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error: Command line contains unexpected token '%s', see bitcoind -h for a list of options.\n", argv[i]);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
}
// -server defaults to true for bitcoind but not for the GUI so do this here
SoftSetBoolArg("-server", true);
// Set this early so that parameter interactions go to console