bug#21098: uname man page

2015-07-22 Thread Stephane Chazelas
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

bug#21098: uname man page

2015-07-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 22/07/15 10:33, Stephane Chazelas wrote: 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

bug#21098: uname man page

2015-07-21 Thread Pádraig Brady
unarchive 13001 unarchive 15757 forcemerge 13001 15757 21098 close 13001 stop 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:

bug#21098: uname man page

2015-07-21 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 20/07/15 22:16, Assaf Gordon wrote: tag 21098 notabug stop Hello, On 07/20/2015 03:26 PM, Norbert de Jonge wrote: Maybe someone has time and energy to make some minor improvements to uname's man page. The problem lies in the vagueness and similarity of the options -m, -p and -i,

bug#21098: uname man page

2015-07-20 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 21098 notabug stop Hello, On 07/20/2015 03:26 PM, Norbert de Jonge wrote: Maybe someone has time and energy to make some minor improvements to uname's man page. The problem lies in the vagueness and similarity of the options -m, -p and -i, combined with the program's unpredictable output.

bug#21098: uname man page

2015-07-20 Thread Norbert de Jonge
Maybe someone has time and energy to make some minor improvements to uname's man page. The problem lies in the vagueness and similarity of the options -m, -p and -i, combined with the program's unpredictable output. I think a good way to explain the problem is by giving an example. My example

bug#21098: uname man page

2015-07-20 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 07/20/2015 09:26 PM, Norbert de Jonge wrote: Maybe someone has time and energy to make some minor improvements to uname's man page. The problem lies in the vagueness and similarity of the options -m, -p and -i, combined with the program's unpredictable output. Thanks for the report.