Bug 84766
| Summary: | uname -o misrepresents operating system | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Michael A. Peters <mpeters> |
| Component: | sh-utils | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | mitr |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-12-10 12:27:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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-o is not specified by POSIX and so can't be relied upon anyway. |
Description of problem: uname -o reports GNU/Linux as the operating system. This is not the operating system. The operating system is Red Hat Linux. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. uname -o 2. 3. Actual results: GNU/Linux Expected results: uname should produce a result that is compatible with what is in /etc/release (or /etc/redhat-release). Additional info: When writing bug report software that reports a bug to the vendor, it is useful to report the operating system automagically. This could be done with uname -o from sh-utils if it properly reported the operating system. Instead, it reports a class of operating system - ones that use the Linux kernel and have some GNU software installed. Operating systems in this class can vary quite a bit, and the class of the operating system is useless. Since Red Hat (and many others) do not have an /etc/release file by default, using uname -o is a second way for bug reporting software to get operating system information, if uname -o would report the proper operating system, opposed to just a class of OS's (which for all practical purposes can be determined via uname -s)