2015-07-22 01:54:58 +0100, Pádraig Brady: [...] > On 21/07/15 14:34, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Thanks, that patch looks good, except for some nits. POSIX spells the > > phrase > > "non-portable" and we might as well be consistent. The --help lines would > > look > > better as: > > > > -p, --processor print the processor type (non-portable)\n\ > > -i, --hardware-platform print the hardware platform (non-portable)\n\ > > > > as the period would look funny after a non-capitalized sentence. > > Done and pushed. > I've closed the bugs now since we've discouraged use of these options. > Since they're platform specific, any logic changes should be > in uname(1) and/or the kernel. [...]
Note that for Solaris, it's -m that's discouraged http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1461/uname-1.html -p is useful as it gives (is meant to give) the instruction-set. Although not POSIX, it's fairly portable. Among the modern (and less modern) Unix players, I could only find HP/UX not supporting it. -- Stephane
