GNU bug report logs - #16101
Doubt regarding uname command

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: NARHAR DEV SHARMA <narhardev01 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:52:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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From: NARHAR DEV SHARMA <narhardev01 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Doubt regarding uname command
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:40:29 +0530

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uname command manual page show about these options as follow:
 -r, --kernel-release
              print the kernel release

        -v, --kernel-version
              print the kernel version

but i found that these options are conflicting as given in manual page

eg

inlc7940> uname -v
#1 SMP Wed Dec 2 12:27:56 UTC 2009
inlc7940> uname -r
2.6.16.60-0.58.1.3835.0.PTF.638363-smp

Help me to solve this problem....

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: NARHAR DEV SHARMA <narhardev01 <at> gmail.com>, 16101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16101: Doubt regarding uname command
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:19:58 -0700

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forcemerge 14388 16101
thanks

On 12/10/2013 03:10 AM, NARHAR DEV SHARMA wrote:
> uname command manual page show about these options as follow:
>  -r, --kernel-release
>               print the kernel release
> 
>         -v, --kernel-version
>               print the kernel version
> 
> but i found that these options are conflicting as given in manual page
> 
> eg
> 
> inlc7940> uname -v
> #1 SMP Wed Dec 2 12:27:56 UTC 2009
> inlc7940> uname -r
> 2.6.16.60-0.58.1.3835.0.PTF.638363-smp
> 
> Help me to solve this problem....

Thanks for the report.  However, this is turning into a FAQ; see
debbugs.gnu.org/14388 for the last discussion on the issue (we are
accurately returning what the kernel sticks in the struct used by the
uname(2) syscall; changing things would require a kernel change and not
something we can effect here; about the best we could do is a doc update
to make it clear that we really return whatever random strings the
kernel tells us even if those strings aren't "release" and "version" in
the sense you are expecting).

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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bug closed, send any further explanations to 14388 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and vevek venkatesan <vevekvece <at> gmail.com> Request was from Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:32:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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