X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_MSGID_LONG45,TW_CG,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20100404212837.GA13198@onderneming10.xs4all.nl> <4BB9944D.5000005@gmail.com> <20100405142008.GA10449@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100406141326.GC16409@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 06:31:44 +0100 Received: by 10.239.193.4 with SMTP id g4mr706508hbi.192.1270618304584; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1 From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Rurik Christiansen: >> So, did anyone actually read my response here about how this wouldn't >> work for Cygwin? =C2=A0If so, you'd have to think that these responses w= ere >> pretty off-topic. > > Actually I did but I gracefully disagree :) > > Strictly speaking you are technically perfectly correct. > > Humans however are technically imperfect creatures and so we like to > give names even to collection of things that are ambiguous. Due to the reasons cgf described, the file in question couldn't contain much else but the output of 'uname -r', which incidentally is part of the POSIX standard and hence available on every Unix/Linux, whereas /etc/*release is not. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/uname.html So please just use that. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple