Re: How would a script recognize Linux?

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From: Iain Calder
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 20:42

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Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.COM> wrote:
> 
> > One precaution must be taken:  SCO Unix has a broken uname program:
> > 'uname -s' returns the node name rather than "SCO" or "Unix", so in
[...]
> This will be fixed in our next release, which will use the symbol
> "SCO_SV".
[...]
> I also don't remember whether SCO XENIX actually gives a reasonable
> response

% uname -s
XENIX
% uname -r
2.3.1
% uuname -l
messalina

There you go!

-iain

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