Better handling of arguments/literals from the command-line?

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> [...]  If I gave it a pid that it had seen before, it only took 10
> seconds.  [...]

This is a bug related to bug #3498.  This should go back down to
near-second times.

- FChE