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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:05:14 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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Subject: Re: $OS vs `uname -s` [Attn: base-files maintainer]
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Eric Blake wrote:

> If your setup is like mine, OS is an inherited environment variable, set
> by Windows before bash is even started.  You can set it to whatever you
> like.  Meanwhile, uname -s is not affected by the environment (you really
> don't want an environment variable changing the uname output).  Hmm, maybe
> we should update /etc/profile to do OS=`uname -s`.  Thoughts?

No, IMO leave it alone.
We are on Windows and there are several flavours, I need to know if
I'm on NT or Win98 and the few Windows environment settings are useful.

FWIW, it is not defined on my Slackware box:

$ ssh slackware -l root
root AT slackware's password:
Last login: Thu Aug 11 19:43:51 2005
Linux 2.4.22.
root AT slackware:~# uname -s
Linux

root AT slackware:~# echo $OS

root AT slackware:~# echo $SHELL
/bin/bash


Gerrit
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