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bug#21098: uname man page
From: |
Stephane Chazelas |
Subject: |
bug#21098: uname man page |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:33:55 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
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
bug#21098: uname man page, Bernhard Voelker, 2015/07/21