Subject: bug#13001: Reporting potential bug | uname -p and uname -i return unknown on Debian

From: Bob Proulx <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:03:35 -0700

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> We should either deprecate the options, or try
> to standardise them a bit.

I would deprecate them.  By working at all they suck people into using
them when they should be avoided.

> From POSIX we have
> ...

In HP-UX we have:

  $ uname -m
  9000/800

  $ uname -i
  1545710558

  $ uname -p
  uname: illegal option -- p
  usage: uname [-amnrsvil] [-S nodename]

Bob