On 22/07/15 10:33, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the extra info. Just to be clear, for portability I was referring to the POSIX options, but mainly to the value itself. I.E. it's meant as a warning to have users consider use of these values. Also it's better to align with the standards and most popular platforms. thanks, Pádraig.
