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From: Rocky Hotas <rockyhotas@firemail.cc>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: Re: [9front] Equivalent of Unix uname
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 17:28:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ad2itgo3j3c63lrwlqqohr44jn3ijrhckk7ehqeoe7nnfiz3s@oup27ag2zhod> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1e9780d-33ce-4b84-948d-8257c204bd2b@posixcafe.org>

On mar 09 11:42, Jacob Moody wrote:
> 
> There is /dev/osversion but its not really particularly insightful.
> Uname is generally used to differentiate different Unixen from
> each other, so I don't see why it would be particularly useful
> on Plan 9.
> 
> We also do not generally have version of the kernel per se,
> at least not in the same way something like Linux does.

Yes, in fact I thought kernel versions and OS type were handled
similarly to Linux or other Unix-like system, but that's not the case
for Plan9.

Thanks to you and to all those who added their suggestions.
You have been very helpful!

Rocky

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-10 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-09 17:31 rockyhotas
2024-03-09 17:42 ` B. Atticus Grobe
2024-03-09 18:07   ` Lucas Francesco
2024-03-09 17:42 ` Jacob Moody
2024-03-09 18:07   ` hiro
2024-03-10 16:28   ` Rocky Hotas [this message]
2024-03-09 19:32 ` Jon Sharp
2024-03-10 21:03 ` Eli Cohen
2024-03-10 21:07   ` Jacob Moody

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