Found the code, and it's actually part of python (as of 2.4).
Gentoo sets aliased to 1 when printing the system uname.
/usr/lib/python2.{4,5,6}/platform.py:
def _platform(*args):
""" Helper to format the platform string in a filename
compatible format e.g. "system-version-machine".
"""
# Format the platform string
platform = string.join(
map(string.strip,
filter(len,args)),
'-')
# Cleanup some possible filename obstacles...
replace = string.replace
platform = replace(platform,' ','_')
platform = replace(platform,'/','-')
platform = replace(platform,'\\','-')
platform = replace(platform,':','-')
platform = replace(platform,';','-')
platform = replace(platform,'"','-')
platform = replace(platform,'(','-')
platform = replace(platform,')','-')
# No need to report 'unknown' information...
platform = replace(platform,'unknown','')
# Fold '--'s and remove trailing '-'
while 1:
cleaned = replace(platform,'--','-')
if cleaned == platform:
break
platform = cleaned
while platform[-1] == '-':
platform = platform[:-1]
return platform
def platform(aliased=0, terse=0):
""" Returns a single string identifying the underlying platform
with as much useful information as possible (but no more :).
The output is intended to be human readable rather than
machine parseable. It may look different on different
platforms and this is intended.
If "aliased" is true, the function will use aliases for
various platforms that report system names which differ from
their common names, e.g. SunOS will be reported as
Solaris. The system_alias() function is used to implement
this.
Setting terse to true causes the function to return only the
absolute minimum information needed to identify the platform.
"""
result = _platform_cache.get((aliased, terse), None)
if result is not None:
return result
# Get uname information and then apply platform specific cosmetics
# to it...
system,node,release,version,machine,processor = uname()
if machine == processor:
processor = ''
if aliased:
system,release,version = system_alias(system,release,version)
if system == 'Windows':
# MS platforms
rel,vers,csd,ptype = win32_ver(version)
if terse:
platform = _platform(system,release)
else:
platform = _platform(system,release,version,csd)
elif system in ('Linux',):
# Linux based systems
distname,distversion,distid = dist('')
if distname and not terse:
platform = _platform(system,release,machine,processor,
'with',
distname,distversion,distid)
else:
# If the distribution name is unknown check for libc vs. glibc
libcname,libcversion = libc_ver(sys.executable)
platform = _platform(system,release,machine,processor,
'with',
libcname+libcversion)
elif system == 'Java':
# Java platforms
r,v,vminfo,(os_name,os_version,os_arch) = java_ver()
if terse:
platform = _platform(system,release,version)
else:
platform = _platform(system,release,version,
'on',
os_name,os_version,os_arch)
elif system == 'MacOS':
# MacOS platforms
if terse:
platform = _platform(system,release)
else:
platform = _platform(system,release,machine)
else:
# Generic handler
if terse:
platform = _platform(system,release)
else:
bits,linkage = architecture(sys.executable)
platform = _platform(system,release,machine,processor,bits,linkage)
_platform_cache[(aliased, terse)] = platform
return platform
Proof: run /usr/lib/python2.{4,5,6}/platform.py
aliased and terse have no effect wrt output (kernel_version-with-libc_version)
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Andrey Vul
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