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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:21:10 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To: Cygwin-Developers <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: uname -s question
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In-Reply-To: <20010222130138.N11175@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:01:38PM -0500
Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:01:38PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:09:33PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >Does anyone use the information, that starts with the "_" in "uname -s"?
> >For example on NT 4.0, I'm referring to the "_NT-4.0".
> [snip]
> 
> I don't see why this is necessary.  It comes up repeatedly and the
> extremely simple solution is to match on CYGWIN*.  Many other systems
> use this convention.  For instance, look at gdb's configure.in or
> configure.tgt script.  There is a 'hpux*' and a 'solaris*'.

A Python developer was proposing changing sys.platform under Cygwin to
return

    cygwin

instead of the current value of

    cygwin_nt-4.01

Which would enable constructs like the following to work:

    if sys.platform in ['cygwin', 'linux']:
        # ...

I just figured that it was worth asking to "fix" this at the source
before they went ahead with their higher-level change.

> The information *could* potentially be important.  Cygwin running on
> NT is not the same thing as Cygwin running on 95.

Agreed -- which is why I felt squeamish even bringing this up.

Thanks,
Jason

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Jason Tishler
Director, Software Engineering       Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235
Dot Hill Systems Corp.               Fax:   +1 (732) 264-8798
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