Thrashing Stinks

Solaris 9 & 10

# who -Hr
NAME       LINE         TIME          IDLE    PID  COMMENTS
   .       run-level 3  May 16 06:26     3      0  S

Running “man who” indicates -r but gives no description of the meaning of the fields’ values in this special usage (like “the comments field indicates the last run level used”… or what the IDLE value indicates).

RHEL v4 (GNU coreutils)

# who -Hr
NAME     LINE         TIME         IDLE          PID COMMENT
         run-level 3  Apr 12 10:22                   last=S

That’s bettter! last=S is a little more intuitive. Running “man who” indicates -r then suggests reading ‘info coreutils who’ for more information on the who command. Running ‘info coreutils who’ brings up the GNU info page and it completely omits mentioning the -r option or its meaning.

Sweet.