In the case of James, uname gave "Plan9 ", with a trailing space.
I have not that on my Plan9, but for what is worth I have published a patched risk_comp that removes leading and trailing blanks (since I replace blanks with '_', the name became "plan9_", and there is no parameters file for this...;) -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C