[Bug libc/22099] getconf help info

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22099

Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Eric Blake from comment #2)
> The Austin Group pointed out one of the ambiguities of the GNU output when
> encountering multi-line confstr() output:
> 
> $ getconf POSIX_V7_WIDTH_RESTRICTED_ENVS 
> POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFF32
> POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFFBIG
> POSIX_V7_LP64_OFF64
> $ getconf -a | grep -A2 V7_WIDTH
> _POSIX_V7_WIDTH_RESTRICTED_ENVS    POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFF32
> POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFFBIG
> POSIX_V7_LP64_OFF64
> POSIX_V7_WIDTH_RESTRICTED_ENVS     POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFF32
> POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFFBIG
> POSIX_V7_LP64_OFF64
> 
> and recommends that GNU consider changing the output to be more like BSD
> output, using a colon between the item name and its value (as it is less
> likely for a confstr() output to also contain a colon)

Colon between name and value, or colon between multiple values (instead of
newlines)?

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