On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:02:48PM +0200, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> Is there something in the standard library that allows me to
> distinguish between oxs and linux (Sys.os_type just returns "Unix" for
> both).

How about running the external "uname" program.  On Mac OS X
it prints:

$ uname 
Darwin

On all Linux distros it prints:

$ uname
Linux

Of course, only run external "uname" if Sys.os_type = "Unix".

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat

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