Re: Possible bug in uname command

[Bob Proulx]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> >  I have often thought it would be better if on machines that could
> >  not reasonably support those extra uname options that the options
> >  be disabled entirely.  Then instead of unknown the program would
> >  report it as an invalid option.
> 
> But that will break scripts like mad... :(

I don't think it will break scripts because legacy operating systems
don't support those options either.  Therefore most people looking at
'uname -p' output will already be broken on many platforms.  And on
platforms where it works it will continue to work.

  address@hidden:~$ /bin/uname -p
  /bin/uname: illegal option -- p
  usage: uname [-amnrsvil] [-S nodename]

Neither does Debian.  They disable the option because of the user
complaints.

Bob