On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:40:46PM +0300, Petri Koistinen wrote:
>
> I don't understand.
There's a bug in Linux, based in the assumption that Linux is not a kernel
but an OS. AFAIK uname asks Linux, the kernel, for the OS name and Linux
says the OS name is "Linux".
The uname maintainers attempted to workaround that bug by changing uname
documentation into saying that -s is for kernel, but this is not correct.
> $ uname --help
> Usage: uname [OPTION]...
> Print certain system information. With no OPTION, same as -s.
>
> -a, --all print all information, in the following order:
> -s, --kernel-name print the kernel name
this -s is for --system
> -n, --nodename print the network node hostname
> -r, --kernel-release print the kernel release
> -v, --kernel-version print the kernel version
> -m, --machine print the machine hardware name
> -p, --processor print the processor type
> -i, --hardware-platform print the hardware platform
> -o, --operating-system print the operating system
this is a new option
> --help display this help and exit
> --version output version information and exit
>
> Report bugs to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Please re-report your bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not here.
--
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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