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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:50:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Timothy M. Lyons" <lyons@digitalvoodoo.org>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
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Subject: usr.bin/uname -s value always placed in first position

>Number:         57231
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       usr.bin/uname -s value always placed in first position
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 25 21:00:25 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:    Sat Nov 01 17:20:50 PST 2003
>Last-Modified:  Sat Nov 01 17:20:50 PST 2003
>Originator:     Timothy M. Lyons
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p8 i386
>Organization:
Digitalvoodoo, LLC
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD devil.dmz.digitalvoodoo.org 5.1-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD
5.1-RELEASE-p8 #0: Thu Sep 25 14:06:35
EDT 2003 root@devil.dmz.digitalvoodoo.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEVILKERN i386

>Description:
        I was fooling around with the output of uname this evening and
        happened to notice that no matter where you places the -s option,
        the value is placed in the first position.
        Normal Use:
                # uname -n -p -r
                  devil.dmz.digitalvoodoo.org 5.1-RELEASE-p8 i386
        Okay - now I want to insert the OS Name in position 2:
                #  uname -n -s -p -r -s
                   FreeBSD devil.dmz.digitalvoodoo.org 5.1-RELEASE-p8 i386
        Same result using any other combination of options involving -s

>How-To-Repeat:
        I repeated this on two 5.1 boxes with the same system state
	(updated 09/25 STABLE)
>Fix:
        I wish I did. This seems as if it would be a trivial fix
        for someone who knows how to program.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
To: "Timothy M. Lyons" <lyons@digitalvoodoo.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, tlyons@digitalvoodoo.org
Subject: Re: bin/57231: usr.bin/uname -s value always placed in first position
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 06:29:21 +0200

 Timothy M. Lyons wrote:
 
 >         Okay - now I want to insert the OS Name in position 2:
 >                 #  uname -n -s -p -r -s
 >                    FreeBSD devil.dmz.digitalvoodoo.org 5.1-RELEASE-p8 i386
 
 # uname -snrmp | awk '{ print $2, $1, $5, $3, $1 }'
 devil.dmz.digitalvoodoo.org FreeBSD i386 5.1-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 
 
 where snrmp = 12345, dosn't work with -v.
 
 

From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To: "Timothy M. Lyons" <lyons@digitalvoodoo.org>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/57231: usr.bin/uname -s value always placed in first position
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:12:02 +0300

 On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:50:37PM -0400, Timothy M. Lyons wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         57231
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       usr.bin/uname -s value always placed in first position
 > >Originator:     Timothy M. Lyons
 > >Environment:
 > System: FreeBSD devil.dmz.digitalvoodoo.org 5.1-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD
 > 5.1-RELEASE-p8 #0: Thu Sep 25 14:06:35
 > EDT 2003 root@devil.dmz.digitalvoodoo.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEVILKERN i386
 > 
 > >Description:
 >         I was fooling around with the output of uname this evening and
 >         happened to notice that no matter where you places the -s option,
 >         the value is placed in the first position.
 >         Normal Use:
 >                 # uname -n -p -r
 >                   devil.dmz.digitalvoodoo.org 5.1-RELEASE-p8 i386
 >         Okay - now I want to insert the OS Name in position 2:
 >                 #  uname -n -s -p -r -s
 >                    FreeBSD devil.dmz.digitalvoodoo.org 5.1-RELEASE-p8 i386
 >         Same result using any other combination of options involving -s
 
 I don't think the uname(1) command has ever paid any attention to the
 order in which the options have been specified.  I think the uname(1)
 command-line arguments should be considered as on-off switches, not as
 formatting specifiers: you can only instruct uname(1) whether to display
 or not the specific characteristics, but the order is hardcoded.
 
 Are there any OS's where the uname(1) output is really dependent on the
 order of the command-line options?  A couple of quick tests with several
 flavors of Linux showed the same behavior there...
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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