On Sat, 20 May 2006 16:53:27 +0200 Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:

> > > Why do you believe that /usr/bin/uname is not POSIX compliant?
> >
> > Let me re-phrase that statement: "... a cheap way to get a version of
> > 'uname' into that directory which does not have Solaris-specific
> > extensions (e.g. allows the creation of portable scripts without the
> > risk of falling into the 'OS-specific-extension'-trap again)". Better ?
> > :-)

> But you then still ignore the fact that /usr/bin/uname is POSIX compliant on 
> Solaris.

that confustion was fueled by me
other replies pointed out that posix allows the solaris-specific
uname extensions

we've updated uname to match the gnu extensions for uname -a
and hope to post beta source this week


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