reopen 530011 quit > From: Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Bug#530011: util-linux: setarch man page is deficient > User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 > > * Bill Allombert <[email protected]> [200503 22:31]: > > setarch man page is deficient in many ways:
Hello Chris, You forget to CC me while closing this bug. Bug submitters must always be CCed since they do not receive mail to [email protected], only the maintainer does. > > 1) the SYNOPSYS is broken: > > SYNOPSIS > > setarch <arch> [options] [program [arguments]] > > > > arch [options] [program [arguments]] > > > > why is there an "arch" line ? > > "arch" refers to a number of aliases, incl. linux32/linux64 as you > mentioned below. But also i686, s390, ppc64le and what have you. > This generic "arch" trick probably avoids listing all variants > and/or having arch-specific manual pages. Thanks for the explanation! This should be explained and clarified in the manpage. arch is typeset in the same way as setarch, so the reader expects this to refer to /usr/bin/arch, but this is not the case. /usr/bin/arch is provided by coreutils and is unrelated to setarch, and has different options. Instead it should refer to linux32/linux64 and state other aliases might exist. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
