Re: /bin/arch?

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Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:56:49PM +0200, Matthias Koenig wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I noticed that /bin/arch has been removed in release 2.13-pre1.
>> While this command is equivalent to uname -m, it is used by some
>> old scripts. Any chance to keep this for compatibility reasons?
>
>  Good point.
>
>  Yes, I'd like to keep it.

Fine.

>  It seems that many people (include me :-) use it. We (Red Hat) have
>  tried to remove it from our distros, but without success. I think
>  maintain this tiny tool is without any overhead.

Sure, maintaining a program with ~10 lines of C code shouldn't be
that much of a problem ;-)

Matthias

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