From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 02:38:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641661065686 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:38:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C0978FC21 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:38:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m34so1160176wag.27 for ; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:38:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :from; bh=eMEr4xjLV10Vqnvkb9fXYdM/0LkwTlbeBqRC+oaxepM=; b=tnwOvDsGkABqTjB/3EY0nt+2IYIqxiyW1pcXyhNfc2Jz2aFGLHk87X6IjGE01Bxmgc XrI4dWB4xFsbsUQvYJxmmWD2rlf5KQkhhhOtoCto9+Na/OBCYR353YmpMGkujClrcnD6 iowmY1J/03P6sy+PaPTROOH1j3Pav+lD2YzcE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:from; b=sY5WSaME4t9omXD+gvawdmYSLjX63Ma2qNVQUkQ3FTC1us5n4IIrFQ+NUrapPjH7OS mQLoaiKNwCsz7JovZBhABBfPoFNIYdO5UA6rmfc9/nurLlo/bC0QEpiAMzX/Rmlx3ybL iKwKQ3Wutbk8ax+D+ehcCFC2CzokLzq2bHx1w= Received: by 10.114.146.6 with SMTP id t6mr3824154wad.220.1226284704993; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:38:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.101? (ool-182d26f3.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.38.243]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y25sm11297435pod.9.2008.11.09.18.38.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:38:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49179E9A.2020507@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:38:18 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; ) Gecko Thunderbird Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Kientzle References: <491764C3.5020504@gmail.com> <491782BD.9090009@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <491782BD.9090009@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=E9C2CCD1; url=pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eitan Adler Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uname -c: alias for uname -rms X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:38:25 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim Kientzle wrote: > Are there any precedents for this option? Not really - its more like the recent cp -a switch: an alias for a common set of switches. > > If not, then I don't see the point. If you have to tell someone to send > you the output of uname, you may as well tell them to use uname -rms. > (I prefer uname -v personally.) Some people don't like giving out hostnames or kernel names for some strange reason that I can't figure out - -- Eitan Adler -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkXnpoACgkQtl8kq+nCzNGnUQCfXX2jEExBmX0gpqyvuegAmHei qXAAnRDWcJhwJu3oPAUYLp1Ydghg/onQ =2TSg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----