From owner-cvs-all Fri Nov 19 7:53:32 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEFC15062 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 07:53:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991119105314.53717@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:53:14 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Do we still need uname(2)? Reply-To: Greg Lehey Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I'm looking at modifying uname(2) for an embedded application, and I discover that the uname code in sys/kern/kern_xxx.c doesn't appear to be used at all. In the current form it doesn't even return a version string, so at the very least it's broken. But uname(3) uses sysctl(2) to get the information, and uname(2) isn't documented. Is there any reason not to just excise it? /me borrows an axe from phk. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message