-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Marc Girod on 5/16/2009 4:17 AM: > > Marc Girod wrote: >> uname -r >> this gives on 2 installations e.g.: >> >> 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) >> 1.7.0(0.210/5/3) >> >> $ ./uname -s >> CYGWIN_NT-6.0 >
uname -s is wrong (you will get the same answer for two different cygwin installations on the same underlying Windows, but different answers across different Windows versions). But uname -r is reliable. >> > Er... maybe you would object that this is part of coreutils, > and thus not necessarily of every cygwin installation... Coreutils is part of every cygwin installation, as is every other package in the Base category (for example, findutils, tar, bash...). In other words, there are some programs so essential to a unix-y environment that you can count on them being present. But that said, all coreutils' uname(1) does is call uname(2). So emacs can reliably use uname(2) (provided by cygwin1.dll) rather than wasting a fork to call uname(1). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoOuBAACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCwJQCgk7m39ef9Jp5NiVWgX/4/tfN3 pI8Anjq1G3mIwif/JCu68Iu3BrI2eVWW =CgBH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/