On 09/24/2017 04:54 AM, Farhan Khan wrote: > Operating systems consist of far more than their core utilities. If its > argued that we should acknowledge the userspace, we should be consistent > and acknowledge all of the userspace. Change the string to > 'BSD/Oracle/Microsoft/Redhat/ISC/Apache/MIT/GNU/Linux'. This would quickly > grow unwieldly and ridiculous, and thus should be avoided. Additionally, > installing a single GNU utility such as 'uname' on a FreeBSD machine, does > not make the system GNU/FreeBSD. > > Sane alternatives to this bug fix may be: > > * Or replace the 'o' flag with an attempt to determine the actual OS. > (ie, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, etc.) from standard version files. > * Update uname(3) and 'struct utsname' to include OS version information. > * Just call it Linux. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at: > > https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/pull/2
First of all, the coreutils and the gnulib projects use Github just as a mirror - the main discussions are in mailing lists (see To:). > Commit Summary > > * m4/host-os.m4: Fixed bug inserting string 'GNU/' to Linux, kFreeBSD, etc > > > File Changes > > * *M* m4/host-os.m4 > <https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/pull/2/files#diff-0> (8) > > > Patch Links: > > * https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/pull/2.patch > * https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/pull/2.diff > > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/pull/2>, or mute the thread > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AE-ltQKdundJbANHmDk4m2aRXR4YlBxJks5slcRggaJpZM4PhwIr>. The change itself won't make it into upstream code: a) the output of 'uname -o' is very probably often used in scripts to detect the current platform. Any change will definitely break a lots (if not all) of them. b) Re. "Linux" vs. "Gnu/Linux", you can find a lot of material via an internet search, the most relevant for coreutils + gnulib as GNU projects from Richard Stallman: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html Also the "GNU/k*BSD"s are there (in that file) at least since 2003, so a change is very delicate - see a). Have a nice day, Berny
