From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Apr 14 01:50:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA09435 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 01:50:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA09425 Sun, 14 Apr 1996 01:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 01:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199604140850.BAA09425@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: "Marc G. Fournier" Subject: Re: bin/1139: uname.1 and uname.c disagree about display ordering Reply-To: "Marc G. Fournier" Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR bin/1139; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, GNATS Management , freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1139: uname.1 and uname.c disagree about display ordering Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 04:40:52 -0400 (EDT) On Sun, 14 Apr 1996, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >Description: > > uname(1) claims '-a' is the same as '-m -n -r -s -v' however the > code displays as '-n -r -s -v -m'. > I may be missing the point here, but option ordering doesn't seem to make any difference: freebsd# uname -n -r -s -v -m FreeBSD freebsd.ki.net 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #6: Sun Apr 14 02:51:52 EDT 1996 scrappy@freebsd.ki.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/freebsd i386 freebsd# uname -m -n -r -s -v FreeBSD freebsd.ki.net 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #6: Sun Apr 14 02:51:52 EDT 1996 scrappy@freebsd.ki.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/freebsd i386 freebsd# uname -a FreeBSD freebsd.ki.net 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #6: Sun Apr 14 02:51:52 EDT 1996 scrappy@freebsd.ki.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/freebsd i386 The man page states: -a Behave as though the options -m, -n, -r, -s, and -v were speci- fied. It doesn't say in what order, just that it will behave as if all were specified. Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org