uname output ?

[Bayard R. Coolidge]

>>>You seem to have missed the same point Gerry did:

Yeah, I guess I did, BUT, SuSE has *NOT* issued an 'official'
RPM to update the related packages, either, so what I gave
you is what SuSE has out there _right_now_. If it's not the
particular version of 'uname' that you were hoping for, then
you'd be SOL anyway. To make matters worse, the reported
version of 'uname' is "2.0", so it's all the more difficult
to conditionalize the behaviour of your script, since it's
virtually impossible to tell, explicitly, what version of
'uname' is in use on a given system.

>>> Especially if someone has compiled it for a non-Linux
>>> system like True64 or Solaris.  I'd be interested in
>>> knowing if the "default" string is simply "unknown"
>>> or something else.

Ummm, you're getting into very muddy waters here, because
you could be asking if a Tru64[tm] user should try to compile
GNU's implementation of 'uname' or use the 'uname' that comes
with Tru64 UNIX, which I am 99% sure is NOT something from
GNU. I don't have a Tru64 UNIX system running here at home,
but IIRC, their implementation has a number of additional
and/or different features to accommodate the Alpha architecture
and other parameters. Perhaps one of my former cohorts in ZK3
could take a peek at the Tru64 man page and enlighten us. :-)

I don't have any insight into what Solaris, or for that matter,
the various open-source *BSD implementations, do, either. I
suspect that they may have rolled their own, to meet their
specific needs, independent of the FSF.

Just my 20 millidollars' worth,

Bayard