Re: uname -s

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Petri Koistinen <petri@joo.ath.cx> writes:

> I think uname -s should print: GNUmach.

uname -s prints the kernel, but it's the "kernel" in Unixspeak, that
is, the thing that interprets the "system calls" where the "system
calls" are read/write/open.

In other words, the canonical case is a monolithic Unix kernel.  uname
-s should describe whatever entity it is that provides the facilities
provided by a monolithic Unix kernel.

That's the Hurd, in our case.

Now, we might *also* want to mention Mach in the uname -s output, but
certainly not only.