php-cgi command line switch memory check

In our SAPI cgi we have a check along these lines: if (getenv("SERVER_SOFTWARE") || getenv("SERVER_NAME") || getenv("GATEWAY_INTERFACE") || getenv("REQUEST_METHOD")) { cgi = 1; } if(!cgi) getopt(...) As in, we do not parse command line args for the cgi binary if we are running in a web context. At the same time our regression testing system tries to use the cgi binary and it sets these variables in order to properly test GET/POST requests. From the regression testing system we use -d extensively to override ini settings to make sure our test environment is sane. Of course these two ideas conflict, so currently our regression testing is somewhat broken. We haven't noticed because we don't have many tests that have GET/POST data and we rarely build the cgi binary. The point of the question here is if anybody remembers why we decided not to parse command line args for the cgi version? I could easily see it being useful to be able to write a cgi script like: #!/usr/local/bin/php-cgi -d include_path=/path <?php ... ?> and have it work both from the command line and from a web context. As far as I can tell this wouldn't conflict with anything, but somebody at some point must have had a reason for disallowing this. -Rasmus