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
next prev 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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