[NEW PATCH] Re: getconf default output

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>]

On Tue, Aug 31, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > Nix wrote:
> >
> >> What might make sense is printing out the names without the values,
> >
> > That's not much use.
> 
> I disagree.  It often happens to me that I'm looking for a specific
> parameter but can't remember exactly how it is spelled.  Getting the list
> of all names from running getconf is much faster than looking them up in
> the manual.  So at least having an option to print the list would be
> useful, IMHO.

Since other Unix like Solaris also have such an option and people
are asking for it, I bring this up again with an adjusted patch
we use already for SuSE Linux.
Like on Solaris I added the option "-a", which Writes the names of
the current configuration variables to the standard output.

I see only benefits from this patch, no disadvantages.

  Thorsten


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