Narcis Garcia, on dim. 20 août 2017 11:01:20 +0200, wrote: > El 20/08/17 a les 01:06, Svante Signell ha escrit: > > Well, GNU is the GNU os. The kernel consists of gnumach and Hurd > > servers running on top of that kernel. > > > > Take a look at > > uname -a > > GNU hurd-sid 0.9 GNU-Mach 1.8+git20170609-486-dbg/Hurd-0.9 i686-AT386 > > GNU > > uname -s (kernel-name) This might be misleading > > GNU > > uname -r (kernel-release) > > 0.9 > > uname -v (kernel version) > > GNU-Mach 1.8+git20170609-486-dbg/Hurd-0.9 > > uname -o (operating system) > > GNU > > Then it's needed to clarify what should be the simple kernel name as a > software (Mach or Hurd), and uname -s should return only this. > Current behavior seems a bug.
The problem lies in uname's interface itself: it doesn't allow a system to be composed of a microkernel and userland microkernel servers. The current behavior of uname is the best compromise that could be found. What application will mostly care of as a version is the version of the application-visible interface, and thus the microkernel servers, thus uname -r's result. Then if you really want the detail, there is uname -v Samuel
