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Re: [1.7] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 06:12:04AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 02:52:22 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Marc Girod <marc.girod@gmail.com>
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> >
>> > ...if Emacs could know the Cygwin version.
>> >
>> uname -r
>>
>> this gives on 2 installations e.g.:
>>
>> 1.5.25(0.156/4/2)
>> 1.7.0(0.210/5/3)
>>
>> $ ./uname -s
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.0
>
>I meant an Emacs function, not an external program. That Emacs
>function could call the same API that uname uses to report these
>values, but depending on external programs that are not necessarily
>installed is not the best idea.
We haven't patched the uname program. emacs can use the same standard
UNIX function calls as uname:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00496.html
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