The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: Detect::OS
DSLIP: cdpOg
description: What OS, What Version, Which distribution?
userid: SCOTT (Scott Penrose)
chapterid: 4 (Operating_System_Interfaces)
communities:
similar:
Internal functions, eg: $^O
rationale:
Modules all over the place work out what type of operating system
you are using so that they can decide what operations to do or
support.
As such the code to detect these operating systems is distributed
all over the place, and each person has to invent their own methods
and not share the code.
I hope to make this module the centre for OS detection and refactor
other code to use this.
It goes further than just which OS and Version, it also delves into
which distribution (very usefull for Linux) and to hopefully point
out some directories.
For example, the best way on this OS to find a users home
directory, or the temporary directory. We mostly write files to
/tmp, but on Windows it is better to find the temp dir which is
usually c:\windows\temp There is standards to find this information,
this module is a repository for that information.
Following the production of this module I am looking into other OS
helpers, such as user information/directory, process locking (eg:
/var/run/pid files on unix, these change directory per distribution
of even linux, and on other OS it is done a completely different
way).
enteredby: SCOTT (Scott Penrose)
enteredon: Sat Jun 9 06:37:59 2001 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Detect::
::OS cdpOg What OS, What Version, Which distribution? SCOTT
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