From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Apr 14 01:41:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA08915 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 01:41:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA08902 Sun, 14 Apr 1996 01:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id EAA12254; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 04:41:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id EAA00321; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 04:40:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 04:40:52 -0400 (EDT) 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 In-Reply-To: <199604140745.AAA01503@orodruin.orthanc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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