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Re: Possible bug in uname command
From: |
Alfred M\. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: Possible bug in uname command |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:52:43 +0200 |
If Hurd implements the interface to enable 'uname -p' then that
would certainly be a good thing in general. A win-win. But if it
does not then already at this time 'uname -p' is not really useful
to there.
But that isn't a good reason to make the option produce a error.
If you are not concerned about portability across systems and are
only concerned about GNU Hurd then it would seem that whether an
option is available or not on another system should not be a
concern.
I'm concerned about both. If a option works in GNU uname on GNU then
that same option should work (i.e. not report an error) on non-GNU
platforms. --author in ls doesn't work (it shows the group, not
st_author) on GNU/Linux for example, or any of the BSDs, but it would
just be crazy to make it produce an error on those platforms.
On the other hand I am concerned with portability across different
systems. And even in the case that I were using it semi-badly I
think this would not be serious breakage.
If that is the case, why not just make `uname -p' (and for any other
non-POSIX options) produce an error if POSIXLY_CORRECT is defined?
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, (continued)
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Paul Eggert, 2005/09/13
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Eric Blake, 2005/09/13
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Paul Eggert, 2005/09/14
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Bob Proulx, 2005/09/14
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/09/14
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Bob Proulx, 2005/09/14
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/09/14
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Bob Proulx, 2005/09/14
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/09/14
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Bob Proulx, 2005/09/15
- Re: Possible bug in uname command,
Alfred M\. Szmidt <=
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Paul Eggert, 2005/09/15
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/09/15
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Jim Meyering, 2005/09/15
- Re: Possible bug in uname command, Bob Proulx, 2005/09/16
Re: Possible bug in uname command, Eric Blake, 2005/09/14