Re: Bug in command "uname"

[Eric Blake]

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According to Rastislav Vojtko on 6/21/2008 3:31 PM:
| Dear developers,
|
| The "uname" command contains two bugs.
|
| If I type "uname -r" in terminal the result is "#1 SMP Wed May 28
| 20:27:26 UTC 2008",
| if I type "uname -v" in terminal the result is "2.6.24-18-generic"
| These two flags "-v, -r" of the "uname" command are most probably replaced.

Thanks for the report.  However, this is a bug in coreutils, since it
merely outputs exactly what the kernel reported in the release and version
fields of struct utsname in uname(2).  POSIX doesn't really describe in
much details what these fields must contain, so there is a lot of room for
variance between different operating systems.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/utsname.h.html

In general, uname(1) output is not very portable, since uname(2) is so
loosely standardized.

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