[PATCH] Fix incorrect OS reporting in uname -o
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 19 14:18:59 UTC 2013
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> See attached.
What is the point of such a change?
People (presumably) use uname -o to determine whether
the OS is Linux, or BSD, or other Unix.
On Fedora, it says "GNU/Linux". I suspect many other distros have the same.
My guess is, whoever parses "uname -o" has his code prepared
to understand "GNU/Linux".
This may be not the case with bare "Linux"!
This change can create someone's scripts.
There should be a reason why this is useful...
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