Description
Currently a lot of the tools perform side-effects during option parsing. Ideally, it should simply set the options and later code would act on it.
One major problem of the current approach is that --user flag behaves unreliably depending on the order. E.g rc-status --user [...] behaves one way and rc-status [...] --user behaves another.
Another issue is that some options will stop doing further processing which hinders the ability to report incorrect or excess arguments.
E.g a user may enter rc-status --crashed default in order to see all the crashed services in the default runlevel. --crashed actually just ignores any further arguments, even bogus ones like rc-status --crashed --lol will "work".
I've given some rc-status examples since that's what I was working on while I noticed this issue but the issue affects other tools too.