Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:16:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> Cc: Gordon Bergling <gbergling@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uname -a default options Message-ID: <201910151716.x9FHGOFB010622@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20191015164804.GG26396@raichu>
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> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 12:26:00PM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 05:41:26PM +0200, Gordon Bergling wrote: > > > Hello List, > > > > > > "uname -a" is currently mapping the -a option to ?-mnrsv?, which results in something similar like > > > > > > $ uname -a > > > FreeBSD lion.0xfce3.net 12.0-STABLE FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE r350835 GENERIC amd64 > > > > > > What would you think about reducing the option mapping for ?-a? to ?-vmn? , which would result in a less repetitive version string like the one below. > > > > > > $ uname -vmn > > > lion.0xfce3.net FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE r350835 GENERIC amd64 > > > > > > Adapting this would be trivial, but before I hack something together, I would like to get some feedback if such a change would be welcomed? > > > > I'm not sure about the history which led to the current behaviour of -a, > > but the unfortunately reality is that changes like the one you propose > > will likely break programs that process uname -a output. Of course, > > such programs should likely be using more specialized uname options > > instead, but the current behaviour of -a has been in place for something > > like 25 years, so it's quite likely that something depends on it. In > > these situations I prefer to maintain backwards compatibility. > > It seems that the mail I replied to is a duplicate of [1], but it > reappeared in my inbox for some reason. The conclusion there was > basically the same as what I wrote. > > [1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2019-August/054963.html In the last 7 days or so there has been 2 instances of old email dumped back onto FreeBSD lists. This occureed several months ago as well. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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