On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 01:09:41PM +0200, Daniel Bünzli wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Richard Jones <r...@annexia.org> wrote: > > > How about running the external "uname" program. > > Yes, why not. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to resort to that kind > of hacks, that I was missing a function using uname(3) directly.
Stdlib /could/ bind the uname(2) syscall, but it's legendary in its complexity. Seems more likely to cause problems than just calling out to the external program. http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/uname.2.html#NOTES Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs