From 6cebe83cfa656365348ff21f567d133c7e34a71d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 19:17:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "journalctl: remove unexpected behavior of journalctl
 -b"

This reverts commit cf5bccc2bb9569030cb04debbc4208aaca0fe5b4.

We should fix thinks properly if they aren't perfect, not just break
other things...
---
 src/journal/journalctl.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/journal/journalctl.c b/src/journal/journalctl.c
index b347dfa18..cb252eb0b 100644
--- a/src/journal/journalctl.c
+++ b/src/journal/journalctl.c
@@ -371,7 +371,18 @@ static int parse_argv(int argc, char *argv[]) {
 
                 case 'b':
                         arg_boot = true;
-                        arg_boot_descriptor = optarg;
+
+                        if (optarg)
+                                arg_boot_descriptor = optarg;
+                        else if (optind < argc) {
+                                int boot;
+
+                                if (argv[optind][0] != '-' ||
+                                    safe_atoi(argv[optind], &boot) >= 0) {
+                                        arg_boot_descriptor = argv[optind];
+                                        optind++;
+                                }
+                        }
 
                         break;
 
-- 
2.30.2