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Message #27 received at 21098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: Norbert de Jonge <mail <at> norbertdejonge.nl>,
 Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
 21098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, djm <at> djmnet.org
Subject: Re: bug#21098: uname man page
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:33:55 +0100

2015-07-22 01:54:58 +0100, Pádraig Brady:
[...]
> On 21/07/15 14:34, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Thanks, that patch looks good, except for some nits.  POSIX spells the phrase 
> > "non-portable" and we might as well be consistent.  The --help lines would look 
> > better as:
> > 
> >    -p, --processor          print the processor type (non-portable)\n\
> >    -i, --hardware-platform  print the hardware platform (non-portable)\n\
> > 
> > as the period would look funny after a non-capitalized sentence.
> 
> Done and pushed.
> I've closed the bugs now since we've discouraged use of these options.
> Since they're platform specific, any logic changes should be
> in uname(1) and/or the kernel.
[...]

Note that for Solaris, it's -m that's discouraged
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1461/uname-1.html

-p is useful as it gives (is meant to give) the instruction-set. 

Although not POSIX, it's fairly portable. Among the modern (and
less modern) Unix players, I could only find HP/UX not
supporting it.

-- 
Stephane

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