From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10608 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2001 05:15:19 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 30 Jul 2001 05:15:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 13217 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2001 05:15:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 15524 Received: (qmail 13206 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2001 05:15:13 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) From: Borsenkow Andrej To: Zsh hackers list Subject: RE: Enhanced shell standard. summary Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:14:59 +0400 Message-ID: <004f01c118b6$94432f30$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010729221202.2987514291@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2479.0006 > parameters: CPUTYPE, VENDOR, ERRNO CPUTYPE is uname -p IIRC, it hardly warrants extra parameter. VENODR is very unlikely. System vendors change rapidly (what is now ReliantUNIX was (is being) owned by Nixdorf, Siemens Nixdorf, Siemens, Fujitsu Siemens), but VENDOR is still `sni'. Changing VENDOR every time ownership changes clearly defeats its purpose, but companies hardly agree on declaring obsolete names. ERRNO is way too Unix specific; other systems may not have concept of errno or even system calls. -andrej