"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The changes are ok (presuming they work), but there is a problem in > the comments: > > ! ;; There is at present support for Linux and Darwin. > > Darwin is a complete operating system.
Since when? AFAIK, the complete system is called MacOS. > To include "Linux" in that list implies that it too is a complete > operating system. But the communication is just with the kernel, via the proc file system. > That's unfair to the GNU Project, so we won't say do that. I can't see that naming the kernel when clearly the kernel is meant is problematic. The kernel of MacOS is Darwin. The kernel of GNU/Linux is Linux. > The current comment says "Linux" because it refers specifically to > the kernel and its version numbers. (There are no generally > meaningful version numbers for the GNU/Linux system as a whole.) Well, I don't get it. What do you want to call the MacOS kernel if not Darwin? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
