> Octave Orgeron writes: >> Now putting all that info into uname would just complicate life for >> everyone and break all sorts of stuff. As such, uname is for very >> high-level info and isainfo is for detailed. > > Exactly. Putting detailed processor information into uname is not > only unnecessary, but it breaks backward compatibility by forcing > people who are depending on uname output (often inside of 'configure' > scripts) to deal with new and unexpected responses from the system. > > When we've done this in the past, it's been to add support for a new > processor or system family, and not when we've just added support for > yet another variant of an existing processor. > > Breaking existing code can sometimes be the only answer, but it'd > better be for a really good reason. I'm not sure that merely > disliking "i386" as shorthand for "all Intel and AMD x86 compatible > CPUs" is enough of a reason to make ./configure fall over and die.
The only thing that could safely be added to uname is perhaps the OS name just like GNU uname : $ uname --version uname (GNU coreutils) 7.2 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by David MacKenzie. $ uname -a SunOS mimas 5.8 Generic_117350-61 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 Solaris $ /sbin/uname -a SunOS mimas 5.8 Generic_117350-61 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 Even so, I don't see what the value is there. Can anyone tell me what OpenSolaris reports for GNU uname ? Does it say Solaris or OpenSolaris or something else? Also, one parameter that I expect to work is the capital X : $ uname -X uname: invalid option -- X Try `uname --help' for more information. Which doe work with UNIX uname : $ /sbin/uname -X System = SunOS Node = mimas Release = 5.8 KernelID = Generic_117350-61 Machine = sun4u BusType = <unknown> Serial = <unknown> Users = <unknown> OEM# = 0 Origin# = 1 NumCPU = 1 Now that I think about it, messing with uname serves no purpose at all. Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
