Rurik Christiansen: >> So, did anyone actually read my response here about how this wouldn't >> work for Cygwin? If so, you'd have to think that these responses were >> 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
