Re: Is this bug in who?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Subash Patel on 5/21/2008 6:51 AM:
|               Although I have been using this command for a long time,
| I never gave a thought to try something like today, which happened by a
| typo. As per this document, "am I" is considered as arguments (most
| common one). So isnt it required to validate them?

who is working exactly as documented.  There is nothing _to_ validate -
the documentation states that who changes its behavior merely because of
the _presence_ of two arguments, without regards to the contents of those
arguments.

| "Who abcd abcd" has
| no meaning when the purpose was "who am I", and both throw same output.

As designed.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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