| That's the GNU fanatics working overtime. That info is
| hardcoded into
| the uname binary (during its build process). How is this
| done? Via the
| configure script. How is the configure script generated? Using
| autoconf. Who owns copyright to autoconf? You guessed it...
yeah. The file host-os.m4 of coreutils shows:
<------- m4/host-os.m4 -------------->
#serial 2
dnl From Paul Eggert.
# Define HOST_OPERATING_SYSTEM to a name for the host operating system.
AC_DEFUN([UTILS_HOST_OS],
[
AC_CACHE_CHECK([host operating system],
utils_cv_host_operating_system,
[[case $host_os in
# These operating system names do not use the default heuristic
below.
# They are in reverse order, so that more-specific prefixes come
first.
winnt*) os='Windows NT';;
vos*) os='VOS';;
sysv*) os='Unix System V';;
superux*) os='SUPER-UX';;
sunos*) os='SunOS';;
stop*) os='STOP';;
sco*) os='SCO Unix';;
riscos*) os='RISC OS';;
riscix*) os='RISCiX';;
qnx*) os='QNX';;
pw32*) os='PW32';;
ptx*) os='ptx';;
plan9*) os='Plan 9';;
osf*) os='Tru64';;
os2*) os='OS/2';;
openbsd*) os='OpenBSD';;
nsk*) os='NonStop Kernel';;
nonstopux*) os='NonStop-UX';;
netbsd*) os='NetBSD';;
msdosdjgpp*) os='DJGPP';;
mpeix*) os='MPE/iX';;
mint*) os='MiNT';;
mingw*) os='MinGW';;
lynxos*) os='LynxOS';;
linux*) os='GNU/Linux';;
hpux*) os='HP-UX';;
hiux*) os='HI-UX';;
gnu*) os='GNU';;
freebsd*-gnu*) os='GNU/FreeBSD';;
freebsd*) os='FreeBSD';;
dgux*) os='DG/UX';;
bsdi*) os='BSD/OS';;
bsd*) os='BSD';;
beos*) os='BeOS';;
aux*) os='A/UX';;
atheos*) os='AtheOS';;
amigaos*) os='Amiga OS';;
aix*) os='AIX';;
# The default heuristic takes the initial alphabetic string
# from $host_os, but capitalizes its first letter.
[A-Za-z]*)
os=`
expr "X$host_os" : 'X\([A-Za-z]\)' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
``
expr "X$host_os" : 'X.\([A-Za-z]*\)'
`
;;
# If $host_os does not start with an alphabetic string, use it
unchanged.
*)
os=$host_os;;
esac
utils_cv_host_operating_system=$os]])
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(HOST_OPERATING_SYSTEM,
"$utils_cv_host_operating_system",
[The host operating system.])
])
</------- m4/host-os.m4 -------------->
saha
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