Re: CVS commit: src/bin/hostname

[Alan Barrett]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2013, Erik Fair wrote:

Modified Files:
        src/bin/hostname: hostname.1 hostname.c

Log Message:
Add the following options
-A Display the FQDN of each address on all interfaces.
-a Display alias name(s) of the host.
-d Display the DNS domain.
-f Display the FQDN for the hostname.
-I Display each IP address on all interfaces.
-i Display the IP address(es) for the hostname.

Not to go all Rob Pike on you (cf. "cat -v considered harmful"), but what the heck is all this for?

And also: Where was this change discussed?

--apb (Alan Barrett)