On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:25:43AM +0400, Ivan Zhakov wrote: > I completely agree that it would be great to have one code to get > platform information. But current svn_sysinfo* implementation provides > detailed information which very expensive to obtain. In some codepath > we have to execute external commands. This is fine for separate > command, but I think that's does makes sense for every Subversion > library call. That's why I suggest use static build time information > in user-agent string.
Running uname is too expensive? Can you show some benchmark numbers to back this up? :) If it is prohibitively expensive perhaps you could use a global variable to store the OS name and set it up at startup with svn_atomic__init_once()?
