Output of "uname -s" and "uname -o"

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Mon Jun 9 14:19:00 GMT 2008


On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 09:54:32AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>I just looked at the Linux utsname.h, and it defines the length of all the
>fields to be 65 characters.  Is there a compelling reason for Cygwin to be
>limited to 20?

Maybe we need a cygwin-developers FAQ.

Can't you conceive of a reason why a publicly available structure can't
easily change the size of its members?

cgf



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