1. 2.5 Suggestion (Bob Craig)
How much trouble would it be to change the platform value for FREEBSD
it's different from the LINUX value?
For some things, like getting information using read_proc(), Linux and
FreeBSD are quite different, so distinguishing between them would be
handy.
-Ron T.
2. Re: 2.5 Suggestion (Bob Craig)
Ron Tarrant wrote:
> How much trouble would it be to change the platform value for FREEBSD
> it's different from the LINUX value?
It would break a lot of code.
I thought about this carefully when I ported to FreeBSD.
At first I was going to have a new platform() value.
Then I noticed that in almost every case, Linux code
would run without change on FreeBSD, provided the
platform() value was the same. So I made it the same.
> For some things, like getting information using read_proc(), Linux and
> FreeBSD are quite different, so distinguishing between them would be
> handy.
I guess you'll have to use some other test to
make your code work on both Linux and FreeBSD.
Maybe test directly to see if a .so exists
or not, or look at the values returned from
a library call, etc.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
3. Re: 2.5 Suggestion (Bob Craig)
Ron Tarrant wrote:
>
> How much trouble would it be to change the platform value for FREEBSD
> it's different from the LINUX value?
>
> For some things, like getting information using read_proc(), Linux and
> FreeBSD are quite different, so distinguishing between them would be
> handy.
I don't know if this is universal, but there's an evironment variable
$OSTYPE which returns linux-gnu on my (Mandrake) machine.
Irv
4. Re: 2.5 Suggestion (Bob Craig)
irv mullins wrote:
>
>
> Ron Tarrant wrote:
> >
> > How much trouble would it be to change the platform value for FREEBSD
> > it's different from the LINUX value?
> >
> > For some things, like getting information using read_proc(), Linux and
> > FreeBSD are quite different, so distinguishing between them would be
> > handy.
>
> I don't know if this is universal, but there's an evironment variable
> $OSTYPE which returns linux-gnu on my (Mandrake) machine.
Might also try uname - it returns linux here.
Irv
5. Re: 2.5 Suggestion (Bob Craig)
On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 13:34:58 -0700, irv mullins
<guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
>Ron Tarrant wrote:
>>
>> How much trouble would it be to change the platform value for FREEBSD
>> it's different from the LINUX value?
>>
>> For some things, like getting information using read_proc(), Linux and
>> FreeBSD are quite different, so distinguishing between them would be
>> handy.
>
>I don't know if this is universal, but there's an evironment variable
>$OSTYPE which returns linux-gnu on my (Mandrake) machine.
It's been a while, and I no longer have unix installed, but you could
easily check: I think uname (as in eg system("uname>tmp.txt")) will
give you what you need. Try man uname, as well, obviously.
Regards,
Pete
6. Re: 2.5 Suggestion (Bob Craig)
I'm sure that this has been suggeted before, but how about adding a
subplatform() function. This could return 1 for Linux and 2 for FreeBSD,
with new values defind when Eu is ported to other compatible Unix flavors.
For Dos and Windows where the issue is inapplicable, subplatform() would
return 0.
-- Mike Nelson
