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Re: uname -s


From: Alfred M. Szmidt
Subject: Re: uname -s
Date: 24 Oct 2002 13:17:00 +0200
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tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> Petri Koistinen <petri@joo.ath.cx> writes:
> 
> > I think uname -s should print: GNUmach.
> 
> uname -s prints the kernel, but it's the "kernel" in Unixspeak, that
> is, the thing that interprets the "system calls" where the "system
> calls" are read/write/open.

According to POSIX, `uname -s' should print the "implementation of the
operating system".

-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt




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