Subject: Re: new uname.c for uname -p fix related

From: Michael Stone <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 08:50:29 -0400

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:46:33AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote:
>i have patched debian source from sid for file
>uname.c for debian coreutils.

For what it's worth, I stand by what I wrote in 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193170 in 2007 and 
still don't see any reason for -i and -p to exist. They may have made 
sense on some proprietary architectures in the distant path, but are 
irrelevant on contemporary systems.

Mike Stone