On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:54:49AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> reassign 638878 coreutils 8.5-1
> quit
> Hi Touko,
>
> Touko Korpela wrote:
>
> > Would it be possible to report Debian kernel version in uname
> > output? Maybe it can be added to "kernel version" string, uname -v
> > (now it's "#1 SMP Wed Aug 17 05:07:22 UTC 2011".
> > This information is present in /proc/version and could be in uname too.
>
> The uname utility is provided by coreutils, which could read this
> information from /proc/version if it's desirable (no opinion on
> that personally).
I don't think uname(1) should be changed; it is supposed to report
just what uname(2) does. We should change the behaviour of the
latter, if anything.
Ben.
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