Re: [PATCH 1/8] setarch: (man) remove a synopsis line that mistakenly mentions `arch`

Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.util-linux
Message-ID <th24qbvmvco3w4oqwcfnxnacwrfcgpqs2qfp7whmam5gjm6wwn@fnajesleg2u4>
Hi,

* Karel Zak <[email protected]> [250408 12:36]:
>On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 05:14:32PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>> -*arch* [options] [_program_ [_argument_...]]
>
>This is not a bug. We use symlinks for setarch to support specific
>architectures. It would be beneficial to describe this in the man
>page in better way...
>
>$ find /usr/bin -type l -lname 'setarch'
>/usr/bin/i386
>/usr/bin/linux64
>/usr/bin/uname26
>/usr/bin/x86_64
>/usr/bin/linux32

There's a very old Debian bug (#530011) asking for the setarch man 
page to list all its aliases. Actually it started out asking what 
"arch" meant in there.

Maybe the man page really could list all known aliases?

Chris
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