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"unknown" for uname -p related

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Message #20 received at 15757 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Stone <mstone <at> debian.org>
To: Jeffrin Jose <ahiliation <at> yahoo.co.in>
Cc: 15757 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: new uname.c  for uname -p fix related
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

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