[Toybox] Pending todoness.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Sep 16 18:52:12 PDT 2021


On 9/16/21 8:14 PM, enh wrote:
> given that we've never had a `uname -o` on Android before, by definition no-one
> can have any expectations of what it should output, so seems fine to me. (you
> could make the same argument for just letting it output "Linux", of course, but

That's what uname says with no arguments. (Default output is -s I think?)

> since there's _potentially_ value in knowing you're on Android.)
> 
> i assume the above was the question you were actually asking, but i can't help
> follow on to ... afaict this non-POSIX, non-BSD, non-macOS flag only exists to
> put "GNU" in front of "Linux" on Linux systems (which are the only systems that
> implement the flag anyway)?

I remember why I made the change now...

> does anyone have an actual _use_ for this flag?

Well, they might now. :)

Rob



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