Re: How to identify "running on a Hurd system"?
Narcis Garcia, on dim. 20 août 2017 11:01:20 +0200, wrote:
> El 20/08/17 a les 01:06, Svante Signell ha escrit:
> > 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
>
> 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.
The problem lies in uname's interface itself: it doesn't allow a system
to be composed of a microkernel and userland microkernel servers. The
current behavior of uname is the best compromise that could be found.
What application will mostly care of as a version is the version of the
application-visible interface, and thus the microkernel servers, thus
uname -r's result. Then if you really want the detail, there is uname -v
Samuel
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