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authorRon Yorston2015-07-12 16:06:37 +0100
committerDenys Vlasenko2015-08-03 18:09:18 +0200
commit64ed5f0d3c5eefbb208d4a334654834c78be2cbd (patch)
tree78b7a32dfb2162234c9c70b982317d9f2aa520df
parentb27cf31003774e5aa13491ccb8f1f0721dc5b920 (diff)
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uname: make OS name configurable
A mailing list thread in September 2013 discussed changing the string returned by the non-POSIX 'uname -o' option. Nothing ever came of this because there was no agreement as to what the string should be. Make the string configurable so that people can decide for themselves. Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy@frippery.org> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
-rw-r--r--coreutils/Config.src8
-rw-r--r--coreutils/uname.c4
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/coreutils/Config.src b/coreutils/Config.src
index 02155d2..ffbef1a 100644
--- a/coreutils/Config.src
+++ b/coreutils/Config.src
@@ -630,6 +630,14 @@ config UNAME
help
uname is used to print system information.
+config UNAME_OSNAME
+ string "Operating system name"
+ default "GNU/Linux"
+ depends on UNAME
+ help
+ Sets the operating system name reported by uname -o. The
+ default is "GNU/Linux".
+
config UNEXPAND
bool "unexpand"
default y
diff --git a/coreutils/uname.c b/coreutils/uname.c
index 1c6aa5f..fd677d2 100644
--- a/coreutils/uname.c
+++ b/coreutils/uname.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ typedef struct {
struct utsname name;
char processor[sizeof(((struct utsname*)NULL)->machine)];
char platform[sizeof(((struct utsname*)NULL)->machine)];
- char os[sizeof("GNU/Linux")];
+ char os[sizeof(CONFIG_UNAME_OSNAME)];
} uname_info_t;
static const char options[] ALIGN1 = "snrvmpioa";
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ int uname_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
#endif
strcpy(uname_info.processor, unknown_str);
strcpy(uname_info.platform, unknown_str);
- strcpy(uname_info.os, "GNU/Linux");
+ strcpy(uname_info.os, CONFIG_UNAME_OSNAME);
#if 0
/* Fedora does something like this */
strcpy(uname_info.processor, uname_info.name.machine);