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Re: uname -s
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Robert Millan |
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Re: uname -s |
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Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:40:55 +0200 |
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:47:23AM +0300, Petri Koistinen wrote:
> Hi!
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> I think uname -s should print: GNUmach.
That would break scripts that rely on uname -s.
On the other hand, I think uname is wrong in changing the -s,
which has always corresponded to "system", into kernel
just because Linux, the kernel, claims to be the OS on
GNU/Linux' "uname -s".
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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