GNU bug report logs - #13001
Reporting potential bug | uname -p and uname -i return unknown on Debian

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Ashish, Agrawal" <agrawal.ashish <at> hp.com>

Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:33:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 15757, 21098

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: "Ashish, Agrawal" <agrawal.ashish <at> hp.com>, 13001 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13001: Reporting potential bug | uname -p and uname -i return unknown on Debian
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
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