[ARROW-2260] [C++][Plasma] plasma_store should show usage

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: C++ - Plasma
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18218
• Assignee: Christian Hudon
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 05/Mar/18 13:07
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:19
• Resolved: 29/Apr/20 04:48

Description

Currently the options exposed by the plasma_store executable aren't very discoverable:

$ plasma_store -h
please specify socket for incoming connections with -s switch
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(pyarrow) antoine@fsol:~/arrow/cpp (ARROW-2135-nan-conversion-when-casting *)$ plasma_store 
please specify socket for incoming connections with -s switch
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(pyarrow) antoine@fsol:~/arrow/cpp (ARROW-2135-nan-conversion-when-casting *)$ plasma_store --help
plasma_store: invalid option -- '-'

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: ARROW-7585 Plasma-store-server does not support --help, shows backtrace on getopt error
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7025