On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:36:04AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > I dunno, that patch looks a little weird to me, as it causes "-a" to > behave non-orthogonally with respect to the -o option (i.e., -o is > treated differently from -s/-n/-r/-v/-m/-p/-i). Also, I suppose it > might break some software that parses "uname -a" output (any such > software is unportable, but we'd rather not break it anyway...). > > What's the motivation for the change?
In Debian, "uname -a" is executed by login right after authenticating. In GNU/kFreeBSD systems, `uname -s` output is equal to `uname -o`. Therefore everytime you login in Debian GNU/kFreeBSD it prints the same information twice, making the string look redundant and longer. >From my aesthetical view it doesn't look nice, but I understand the drawbacks you described, and won't insist more on this (a sign of relief is heard ;). Just do as you see fit. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
