Glenn Fowler wrote: > > there was an opportunity, a long time ago, for uname to be a useful utility, > and it was wasted > > static probing will not work on systems that have more than one uname > dynamic probing would lose any speed or cross-architecture portability gains > > it might be best to move uname to the /opt/ast/bin builtin directory > this can be done by compiling ksh with > -DSHOPT_CMDLIB_BLTIN -DSHOPT_CMDLIB_DIR
Actually this is not neccesary. I was simply wrong that there is no standard (see James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com>'s comment about that: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2006-May/000300.html). IMO we shoudn't touch the AST version of "uname" and ksh93's builtin - it perfectly implements the POSIX standard and that's exactly what we need. My patch is not needed (nor wanted from my side) - just ignore it... :-) ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
