Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > 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... :(
I don't think it will break scripts because legacy operating systems don't support those options either. Therefore most people looking at 'uname -p' output will already be broken on many platforms. And on platforms where it works it will continue to work. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /bin/uname -p /bin/uname: illegal option -- p usage: uname [-amnrsvil] [-S nodename] Neither does Debian. They disable the option because of the user complaints. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
