[PATCH] Don't look for kernel version if not running on linux

Mark Wielaard mark@klomp.org
Thu Apr 27 19:41:00 GMT 2017


On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 04:08:48PM +0200, Ulf Hermann wrote:
> We don't want to use it, even if it exists.

I am not sure this is really the right place to patch.
The value is retrieved through uname () which is POSIX and so should
be available even on non-GNU/Linux systems. When kernel_release ()
returns NULL the callers expect errno to be set so they can use it
to return a failure code.

Cheers,

Mark



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