I think 3 is what most people would expect.
Personally I think 4 is the most desirable.
Option 1 is better than nothing, in my opinion. The user should be
warned that both "c" and "e" were not set.
Bill Shannon wrote:
> I asked a few people privately but I thought it would be good to get
> more opinions...
>
> If I do
>
> asadmin set a=b c=d e=f
>
> and "c" is an invalid name, what do you expect to happen?
>
> 1. fail after setting "a"?
>
> 2. fail after setting "a" and "e"?
>
> 3. fail before setting anything?
>
> 4. succeed with a warning that "c" wasn't set?
>
>
> Right now (with my pending changes) it does #1 because that's what
> was easy to implement.
>
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