Re: Reporting "who am i" command BUG

[Eric Blake]

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According to Harsh Rajesh Vachhani on 3/24/2009 9:52 PM:
> $who (anystring) (anystring)
> 
> The output which comes is same as  :
> 
> $who am I
> 
> Is this intentional or a bug. If its intentional, can you kindly reply back 
> its significance.

Intentional - reread 'who --help':

If ARG1 ARG2 given, -m presumed: `am i' or `mom likes' are usual.

It matches historical behavior, where it is the value of argc, and not the
contents of argv, that trigger the behavior.  And you are not the first
person to ask this question.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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