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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-07-21 10:17:43 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-07-22 01:55:14 +0100 |
| commit | 6d67649d86a0dcfefb4dfbc0c29f8bb7595f14bb (patch) | |
| tree | 5d37cd4d4e767c6aa23184c9e41d9614d1c2fe47 | |
| parent | 0b0d38b762a293ea7c3427750d525a3ec235787c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-6d67649d86a0dcfefb4dfbc0c29f8bb7595f14bb.tar.xz | |
doc: discourage use of uname -i and -p options
* src/uname.c (usage): State that the non POSIX -i and -p options
are non-portable.
* doc/coreutils.texi (uname invocation): Mention the discrepancies
even across GNU/Linux distros, and that the results should
be used as informational only, rather than impacting any
logic decisions.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/13001
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/uname.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 58084139c..6f62f6dbc 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -15605,8 +15605,8 @@ and the hardware platform name if they are unknown. @cindex platform, hardware Print the hardware platform name (sometimes called the hardware implementation). -Print @samp{unknown} if the kernel does not make this information -easily available, as is the case with Linux kernels. +Print @samp{unknown} if this information is not available. +Note this is non-portable (even across GNU/Linux distributions). @item -m @itemx --machine @@ -15634,8 +15634,8 @@ Print the network node hostname. @cindex host processor type Print the processor type (sometimes called the instruction set architecture or ISA). -Print @samp{unknown} if the kernel does not make this information -easily available, as is the case with Linux kernels. +Print @samp{unknown} if this information is not available. +Note this is non-portable (even across GNU/Linux distributions). @item -o @itemx --operating-system diff --git a/src/uname.c b/src/uname.c index 39bd28c74..af83a5461 100644 --- a/src/uname.c +++ b/src/uname.c @@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ Print certain system information. With no OPTION, same as -s.\n\ fputs (_("\ -v, --kernel-version print the kernel version\n\ -m, --machine print the machine hardware name\n\ - -p, --processor print the processor type or \"unknown\"\n\ - -i, --hardware-platform print the hardware platform or \"unknown\"\n\ + -p, --processor print the processor type (non-portable)\n\ + -i, --hardware-platform print the hardware platform (non-portable)\n\ -o, --operating-system print the operating system\n\ "), stdout); } |