From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Apr 14 13:40:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA13387 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 13:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from multivac.orthanc.com (root@multivac.orthanc.com [206.12.238.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA13358 Sun, 14 Apr 1996 13:40:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (lyndon@localhost) by multivac.orthanc.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10243; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 13:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199604142039.NAA10243@multivac.orthanc.com> From: Lyndon Nerenberg VE7TCP To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, gnats@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1139: uname.1 and uname.c disagree about display ordering In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Apr 1996 04:40:52 EDT." Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 13:39:34 -0700 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Marc" == Marc G Fournier writes: Marc> I may be missing the point here, but option ordering Marc> doesn't seem to make any difference: Read the source and you'll see why. Marc> -a Behave as though the options -m, -n, -r, -s, and -v Marc> were speci- fied. Marc> It doesn't say in what order, just that it will behave Marc> as if all were specified. True, but the implication (as I read it) is that things will come out in the documented order. Your comments point out another bug - the output should match the option ordering specified on the command line. --lyndon