> > That's been discussed, but it sounds like a can of worms. > > I have often thought it would be better if on machines that could > not reasonably support those extra uname options that the options > be disabled entirely. Then instead of unknown the program would > report it as an invalid option. > > But that will break scripts like mad... :(
Since POSIX doesn't document -p or -i, they are already non-portable options. But you do have a point that just deleting the options may have far-reaching effects... -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils