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Re: Euphoria for FreeBSD!

• Posted by Ted Fines <fines at macalester.edu> Apr 20, 2002
• 442 views

'uname -s' shows OS name.

Here's the Linux programmer's man page on uname.  I'd bet that freeBSD has 
the same function.  Someone would just have to inline some C code or wrap 
the function in Eu (by someone, I of course mean someone besides me!):

UNAME(2)            Linux Programmer's Manual            UNAME(2)

NAME
       uname - get name and information about current kernel

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/utsname.h>

       int uname(struct utsname *buf);

DESCRIPTION
       uname  returns system information in the structure pointed
       to  by  buf.   The  utsname  struct  is  as   defined   in
       <sys/utsname.h>:
          struct utsname {
                      char sysname[SYS_NMLN];
                      char nodename[SYS_NMLN];
                      char release[SYS_NMLN];
                      char version[SYS_NMLN];
                      char machine[SYS_NMLN];
          #ifdef _GNU_SOURCE
                      char domainname[SYS_NMLN];
          #endif
          };

RETURN VALUE
       On  success,  zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned,
       and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS
       EFAULT buf is not valid.

CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN

       The domainname member is a GNU extension.

SEE ALSO
       uname(1), getdomainname(2), gethostname(2)

Linux 0.99.11               1993-07-24                   UNAME(2)



--On Saturday, April 20, 2002 4:08 PM +0000 jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:

>
> On  0, Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've released Euphoria 2.3 for FreeBSD.
>> You can get the Interpreter and the Euphoria To C Translator
>> for FreeBSD from:
>> http://www.rapideuphoria.com/v20.htm
>>
>
> I don't have it myself, but this is still excellent news.
>
>> You first have to install Euphoria for Linux,
>> then replace exu with the one compiled for FreeBSD.
>> The two platforms are so similar, I decided to let
>> platform() return 3 for both of them. Otherwise
>> a lot of existing Linux code would break needlessly on FreeBSD.
>>
>
> Then how do I tell the difference between a FreeBSD platform and a
> Linux platform? Some Linux code (not a lot, but some) may not run on
> FreeBSD.
> Perhaps a unix_platform() function, which returns 1 on Linux and 2 on
> FreeBSD and 0 on DOS/Windows?
>
> jbrown
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