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



As far as I know, there is no system but GNU an HURD is one of it's kernels.

در ۱۹ اوت ۲۰۱۷ ۲۰:۲۹:۳۲ (GMT+04:30)، Narcis Garcia <informatica@actiu.net> نوشت:

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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