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...

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

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;