From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de
To: caml-list List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Distinguish between osx and linux programmatically
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 19:23:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100708172318.GB2178@first.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikdfDvzDuUXacj-usqI8C_7eyo3MzG0q4KrIzAB@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 01:09:41PM +0200, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
>
> > How about running the external "uname" program.
>
> Yes, why not. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to resort to that kind
> of hacks, that I was missing a function using uname(3) directly.
[...]
There is uname(1) and uname(2).
Why do you call it "hack"?
You could write a C-binding for uname(2), but does the effort makes sense
for this call?
It's not like you start a whole shell over and over again, just to get
the basename of a file for some 100000 files...
I would assume the call of uname a thing that will be done once
at startup of the program.
For many syscalls I think it makes sense to have them in the stdlib,
but this one is not the one, where I think it's really urgent to have it.
Ciao,
Oliver
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-08 17:23 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 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2010-07-08 10:48 ` 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 [this message]
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