[PATCH xserver 06/19] loader: Remove *GetOS

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Wed Jan 25 19:26:45 UTC 2017


On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 23:44 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 14:32:20 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 
> > This API is dumb.  uname(3) exists, feel free to use it, but ideally
> > write to the interface not to the OS.  There are a couple of drivers
> > using this API, they could all reasonably just not.
> > 
> 
> It's uname(2) AFAICT :)

There's always a libc wrapper, there's not always a syscall.

- ajax


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