Hi,

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:47:55PM -0400, Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott wrote:
> On 2013-09-17 18:56, Rich Felker wrote:
> > -   strcpy(uname_info.os, "GNU/Linux");
> > +   strcpy(uname_info.os,
> > +#ifdef __GLIBC__
> > +           "GNU/"
> > +#endif
> > +           "Linux");
> 
> I'd agree that most BusyBox-based systems can hardly be called
> "GNU/Linux", even with glibc.  It seems inappropriate to call a system
> "GNU" if it has little or no GNU software.

Maybe in the case when GNU toolchain was not used to compile the system?

> But I'd call such a system "BusyBox/Linux" instead, since BusyBox is the
> userspace, regardless of the C library in my opinion.

My systems have uname from busybox, but I also have ~80 other packages
installed, so "BusyBox/Linux" would be also wrong. Maybe it should
be configurable.

A.
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