On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 06:12:04AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 02:52:22 -0700 (PDT) >> From: Marc Girod <marc.gi...@gmail.com> >> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > >> > ...if Emacs could know the Cygwin version. >> > >> 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 > >I meant an Emacs function, not an external program. That Emacs >function could call the same API that uname uses to report these >values, but depending on external programs that are not necessarily >installed is not the best idea.
We haven't patched the uname program. emacs can use the same standard UNIX function calls as uname: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00496.html -- 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/
