Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el.

[Lute Kamstra]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The changes are ok (presuming they work), but there is a problem in
>> the comments:
>>
>>     ! ;; There is at present support for Linux and Darwin.
>>
>> Darwin is a complete operating system.
>
> Since when?  AFAIK, the complete system is called MacOS.
>
>> To include "Linux" in that list implies that it too is a complete
>> operating system.
>
> But the communication is just with the kernel, via the proc file
> system.
>
>> That's unfair to the GNU Project, so we won't say do that.
>
> I can't see that naming the kernel when clearly the kernel is meant is
> problematic.
>
> The kernel of MacOS is Darwin.  The kernel of GNU/Linux is Linux.
>
>> The current comment says "Linux" because it refers specifically to
>> the kernel and its version numbers.  (There are no generally
>> meaningful version numbers for the GNU/Linux system as a whole.)
>
> Well, I don't get it.  What do you want to call the MacOS kernel if
> not Darwin?

As I understand it, Darwin is a subset of OS X that includes the Mach
kernel and more.

Lute.