Re: How to identify "running on a Hurd system"?
El 20/08/17 a les 01:06, Svante Signell ha escrit:
> On Sat, 2017-08-19 at 17:59 +0200, Narcis Garcia wrote:
>> El 19/08/17 a les 15:57, Samuel Thibault ha escrit:
>>>
>>> It's not vague :)
>>>
>>> GNU/Hurd is *the* GNU system, no other system is supposed to make
>>> uname -s return "GNU".
>
>> I believed that GNU was an operating system and Hurd a kernel.
>> Why isn't it?
>
> Well, GNU is the GNU os. The kernel consists of gnumach and Hurd
> servers running on top of that kernel.
>
> Take a look at
> uname -a
> GNU hurd-sid 0.9 GNU-Mach 1.8+git20170609-486-dbg/Hurd-0.9 i686-AT386
> GNU
> uname -s (kernel-name) This might be misleading
> GNU
> uname -r (kernel-release)
> 0.9
> uname -v (kernel version)
> GNU-Mach 1.8+git20170609-486-dbg/Hurd-0.9
> uname -o (operating system)
> GNU
>
> On GNU/Linux you have:
> uname -a
> Linux z97-4790k 4.9.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.10-1 (2017-02-17)
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> uname -s
> Linux
> uname -r
> 4.9.0-2-amd64
> uname -v
> #1 SMP Debian 4.9.10-1 (2017-02-17)
> uname -o
> GNU/Linux
>
Then it's needed to clarify what should be the simple kernel name as a
software (Mach or Hurd), and uname -s should return only this.
Current behavior seems a bug.
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