Hi Tim.
>>>>> Alan,Tim: Enclosed is a version that fixes both this alias
>>>>> problem and other prospective ones without destroying the
>>>>> users' environment or spawning a subshell. Can it be used?
>>>> [mega snippage]
>>> Um, I'm just curious, what happened to the patch that
>>> started this whole snowball? i.e. the proc/version vs.
>>> uname change.
>> I've no idea. I'm not even sure of the reasoning behind the
>> proposal to make that change...
> Perhaps I was a little bit unclear. My question was more
> like: "When you wrote up that patch, why did you choose not
> to include the /proc/version part?"
Probably because (a) I never thought about it, and (b) I had no
idea of the reason why it might be useful anyway...
> You included it in a patch that you previously wrote.
True.
> The reason behind that change was some discussion dating
> back a bit where someone thought it would be useful to
> see the compiler that was used to build the kernel with,
> because of all the problems with people having strange
> results with different compilers.
> /proc/version lists the compiler that was used. uname -a
> does not.
> Yes, ver_linux does print out your compiler, but that is
> not necessarily the one that was used to build the kernel.
> Is this a worthwhile goal?
Yes.
> Am I being clear?
You are - and, now that I understand your comments, I would say
that BOTH are required, so that the bug-fixer can see both the
compiler used to make the kernel AND the one that would be used
to remake it...
My tweaked version to deal with that is now enclosed, along with
the output it gives on one of my non-development systems that has
the `ls -F` alias in use...
Best wishes from Riley.
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