X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 00:33:13 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: eliz@gnu.org Subject: Re: [1.7] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1 Message-ID: <20090517043313.GA32581@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, eliz@gnu.org References: <4A0D6E41.3030108@cornell.edu> <83hbzlqto1.fsf@gnu.org> <23572106.post@talk.nabble.com> <838wkwqv7f.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <838wkwqv7f.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 06:12:04AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 02:52:22 -0700 (PDT) >> From: Marc Girod >> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > >> > ...if Emacs could know the Cygwin version. >> > >> uname -r >> >> this gives on 2 installations e.g.: >> >> 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) >> 1.7.0(0.210/5/3) >> >> $ ./uname -s >> CYGWIN_NT-6.0 > >I meant an Emacs function, not an external program. That Emacs >function could call the same API that uname uses to report these >values, but depending on external programs that are not necessarily >installed is not the best idea. We haven't patched the uname program. emacs can use the same standard UNIX function calls as uname: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00496.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/