I saw some old track back on this subject, but nothing conclusive. This is not a burning issue , but a minor irritant.
Why are we not checking for the values being passed for 2nd & 3rd options when we are not invoking any options ? See below. suj...@parakram:~ [ 0 ] $ uname -a Linux parakram 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux suj...@parakram:~ --- shouldn'd we have thrown an error for the below 2 ? [ 0 ] $ who the hell sujith pts/0 2009-02-09 00:57 (:0.0) suj...@parakram:~ [ 0 ] $ who the hell did this who: extra operand `did' Try `who --help' for more information. suj...@parakram:~ [ 1 ] $ who am i sujith pts/0 2009-02-09 00:57 (:0.0) suj...@parakram:~ [ 0 ] $ The closest i could see was this thread<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-05/msg00131.html> regards, Sujith _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
