Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1
From: Andy Koppe <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 06:31:44 +0100
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

Rurik Christiansen:
>> So, did anyone actually read my response here about how this wouldn't
>> work for Cygwin?  If so, you'd have to think that these responses were
>> pretty off-topic.
>
> Actually I did but I gracefully disagree :)
>
> Strictly speaking you are technically perfectly correct.
>
> Humans however are technically imperfect creatures and so we like to
> give names even to collection of things that are ambiguous.

Due to the reasons cgf described, the file in question couldn't
contain much else but the output of 'uname -r', which incidentally is
part of the POSIX standard and hence available on every Unix/Linux,
whereas /etc/*release is not.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/uname.html

So please just use that.

Andy

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple