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The Properties interface provides several operations for converting properties to and from command-line options.

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For example, if you have set the Filesystem.MaxFileSize property to 1024 and call getCommandLineOptions, the setting is returned as the string "--Filesystem.MaxFileSize=1024". This operation is useful for diagnostic purposes, for example, to dump the setting of all properties to a logging facility, or if you want to fork a new process with the same property settings as the current process.

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This version of the code avoids having to convert the string sequence back into an argc/argv pair before calling Ice::initialize.

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This operation is also used internally by the Ice run time to parse Ice-specific options in initialize.

See Also

• Properties Overview
• The Properties Interface
• Reading Properties
• Setting Properties
• Command-Line Parsing and Initialization
• Logger Facility