It seems to be more of an issue with pedantic than semantic. I don't think uname is updated anymore. The man page is misleading too!
Alan “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." ...Charles Darwin On 4 Jun 2010, at 11:44, Charlie Fenton wrote: > At 10:05 AM +0100 6/4/10, Alan Stafford wrote: >> My operating system is not Darwin, Darwin is my kernel. You need to change, >> "Operating System" to "Kernel Version. > > Thank you for your comments. I think this is a question of semantics. The > man page for uname (1) says: >> -s print the operating system name. > > and "uname -s" displays "Darwin". > > Similarly, The man page for uname (3) says: >> The utsname structure is defined in the <sys/utsname.h> header file, and >> contains the following members: >> >> sysname Name of the operating system implementation. > > and the string returned in sysname is "Darwin". > > So Apple apparently considers Darwin as a legitimate name for the Operating > System. >
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