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Re: How to identify "running on a Hurd system"?



El 19/08/17 a les 15:57, Samuel Thibault ha escrit:
> Christoph Biedl, on sam. 19 août 2017 15:50:39 +0200, wrote:
>> The portable approach was probably examining `uname -s` but
>> appearently on Hurd this returns just "GNU"[1] - at least on the Hurd
>> porter box exodor -, and that's a bit vague.
> 
> It's not vague :)
> 
> GNU/Hurd is *the* GNU system, no other system is supposed to make
> uname -s return "GNU".
> 
> Samuel
> 

I believed that GNU was an operating system and Hurd a kernel.
Why isn't it?


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