Steven Augart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Jarc's point that the GNU/Hurd system will need a hostname program is > well put. Perhaps we could provide a simple way for more casual users not > to install the hostname program. But really, if we add simple support for > --fqdn and --short (as well as -f and -s) it would meet my needs.
I'm hoping someone will submit a patch :-) > Thanks for the warning. I'm not sure what you mean by "Conforming > Environment". Is there some level of Posix conformance here? At any > rate, my environment is apparently non-conforming, since the "tail" I > built is happily taking options like "-1". > > Is there an online discussion of the topic you could point me to? These two give most of the details. http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00085.html http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00087.html This is becoming a FAQ. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
