Re: [9front] Equivalent of Unix uname

[Jacob Moody <moody@posixcafe.org>]

On 3/9/24 11:31, rockyhotas@firemail.cc wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm trying to move the first steps into Plan9.
> It is not Unix, the user is often warned about this. However, some tools
> are available in both systems with almost the same usage, like uptime(1)
> for example. Is there anything equivalent to `uname'? I couldn't find
> such a tool nor in
> 
>   <https://fqa.9front.org/fqa8.html>
> 
> neither in
> 
>   <https://wiki.9front.org/unix2plan9>
> 
> If there is not a perfect equivalent tool, is it anyway possible to list
> some basic information about the current system? For example the OS 
> name,
> the kernel version, the architecture, the hostname.
> 
> Bye!
> 
> Rocky

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.
For architecture there is $cputype and for host name there
is $sysname.


Hope that helps,
moody