David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "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?
As I understand it, Darwin is a subset of OS X that includes the Mach kernel and more. Lute. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
