>    > 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

Reply via email to