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Date:      Sun, 14 Apr 1996 13:39:34 -0700
From:      Lyndon Nerenberg VE7TCP <lyndon@orthanc.com>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
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 
Message-ID:  <199604142039.NAA10243@multivac.orthanc.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Apr 1996 04:40:52 EDT." <Pine.BSI.3.92.960414043706.216B-100000@freebsd.ki.net> 

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>>>>> "Marc" == Marc G Fournier <scrappy@ki.net> 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




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