On Jul 4 13:45, Alexey Pavlov wrote:
> 2013/7/4 Corinna Vinschen:
> > On Jul 4 14:23, Alexey Pavlov wrote:
> >> 2013/7/4 Corinna Vinschen:
> >> > On Jul 4 12:37, Alexey Pavlov wrote:
> >> >> 2013/7/4 Corinna Vinschen:
> >> >> > On Jul 4 13:09, Alexey Pavlov wrote:
> >> >> >> struct utsname
> >> >> >> {
> >> >> >> - char sysname[20];
> >> >> >> + char sysname[21];
> >> >> >
> >> >> > We can't do that. struct utsname is a publically facing structure.
> >> >> > If you change the size, you're breaking compatibility with existing
> >> >> > applications.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > You should better drop some character from the string you want to
> >> >> > enter
> >> >> > here.
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> I can't drop any symbol from "MINGW32" word :)
> >> >
> >> > That's not 20 chars long.
> >> >
> >> Yes. But not only this need to be in 20 symbols. On cygwin 20 symbols is:
> >>
> >> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64\0
> >>
> >> But
> >>
> >> MINGW32_NT-6.1-WOW64\0
> >>
> >> is 21 symbol.
> >
> > Then drop the dash between "NT" and "6.1". Or let's drop the WOW64
> > since it's redundant anyway, given the content of "machine".
> >
>
> Let's drop it!
I'm ok with that, but I think we should drop the "32" from MINGW in
the first place.
Does anybody rely on the "WOW64" in uname -s output? I just checked
the scripts in /bin in my installation and none of it seems to check
for that info.
And then again, it *is* redundant, given the uname -m output...
Corinna
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