Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:46:13 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin version 1.3.2 Message-ID: <20010806134613.C4622@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3B6E5DC8.21360E0F@sibbald.com> <997090077.7672.14.camel@lifelesswks> <3B6E7F7D.F9848EF0@sibbald.com> <20010806152555.A17236@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3B6EA205.FD4FEF86@sibbald.com> <4128484949.20010806181325@logos-m.ru> <3B6EBD78.A9991782@sibbald.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3B6EBD78.A9991782@sibbald.com>; from kern@sibbald.com on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:53:28PM +0200 On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:53:28PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: >Hello, > >Well, there are quite a few "fields" on the full uname output >line. The most interesting for me as a developer supporting >multiple platforms are: > > 1. Operating System Name (field one -- uname -s) > 2. Operating System Release (field 3 -- uname -r) > >and much less > > 3. Operating System Version (starts in field 4 -- uname -v) > >I think of Cygwin as the Operating System Name and >the dll version (1.3.2) as the Operating System Release. > >The extra information you supply seem to me best in the Operating >System Version field. So, instead of: > > CYGWIN_98-4.10 MINIMATOU 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i586 >unknown > >I would suggest something like: > > CYGWIN MINIMATOU 1.3.2 (0.39/3/2)-Win98-4.10 2001-05-20 23:28 i586 >unknown > >so uname -s would print CYGWIN > uname -r 1.3.2 > uname -v (0.39/3/2)-Win98-4.10 2001-05-20 23:28 Take a look at the utsname structure. This obviously won't work. Just use wildcards in if the extra information after the CYGWIN offends you. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/