From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
Cc: caml-list List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Distinguish between osx and linux programmatically
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:23:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100708102314.GA16057@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilhhgpwX6djaxlfccZzSMxY9MP0NU1D2j5EmOgp@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:02:48PM +0200, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> Is there something in the standard library that allows me to
> distinguish between oxs and linux (Sys.os_type just returns "Unix" for
> both).
How about running the external "uname" program. On Mac OS X
it prints:
$ uname
Darwin
On all Linux distros it prints:
$ uname
Linux
Of course, only run external "uname" if Sys.os_type = "Unix".
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-08 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-08 10:02 Daniel Bünzli
2010-07-08 10:23 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2010-07-08 10:48 ` [Caml-list] " Alex
2010-07-08 11:09 ` Daniel Bünzli
2010-07-08 11:44 ` Richard Jones
2010-07-08 15:42 ` Romain Beauxis
2010-07-08 17:01 ` Richard Jones
2010-07-08 17:17 ` oliver
2010-07-08 17:22 ` David Allsopp
2010-07-08 18:22 ` Török Edwin
2010-07-08 17:47 ` Romain Beauxis
2010-07-08 17:23 ` oliver
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