Operating system in an emacs variable?

Operating system in an emacs variable?

[Carsten Dominik]

Hello,

I am looking for a variable or function in Emacs which gives me
information about the operating system the emacs process is running
on.  Basically, I would like to know if I am running Linux or MacOSX.
There must be a variable containing this information, but I could not
find it.  Anyone?

Thanks.

- Carsten

Re: Operating system in an emacs variable?

[Bastien Guerry]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@_DROP_THIS_science.uva.nl> writes:

> I am looking for a variable or function in Emacs which gives me
> information about the operating system the emacs process is running
> on.  Basically, I would like to know if I am running Linux or MacOSX.
> There must be a variable containing this information, but I could not
> find it.  Anyone?

(getenv "MACHINE")

-- 
Bastien

Re: Operating system in an emacs variable?

[Ehud Karni]

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On 19 Mar 2003 11:15:34 +0100, Carsten Dominik <dominik@_DROP_THIS_science.uva.nl> wrote:
> 
> I am looking for a variable or function in Emacs which gives me
> information about the operating system the emacs process is running
> on.  Basically, I would like to know if I am running Linux or MacOSX.
> There must be a variable containing this information, but I could not
> find it.  Anyone?

Check the `system-type' variable.

Ehud.


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Re: Operating system in an emacs variable?

[Pete Oster]

In article <qzuadfrmzll.fsf@sand.science.uva.nl>, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> on.  Basically, I would like to know if I am running Linux or MacOSX.
> There must be a variable containing this information, but I could not
> find it.  Anyone?

There are such variables, but which one you should be using depends on
why you want to know.  For instance, is it really the platform you
want to know, or is it the window system?  Should this test return the
same value for any emacs running in osx (terminal, x11, carbon), or
should it return different values for those three cases?

In short, what is it you're trying to accomplish with this test? 

Re: Operating system in an emacs variable?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Bastien Guerry wrote:

> (getenv "MACHINE")


nil

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Re: Operating system in an emacs variable?

[Barman Brakjoller]

> I am looking for a variable or function in Emacs which gives me
> information about the operating system the emacs process is running

Oh? What a disapointment! The subject of this thread sounded really
really cool; imagine putting a whole operating system into an emacs
variable! That would have been really cool!

:)

Re: Operating system in an emacs variable?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Barman Brakjoller wrote:

> Oh? What a disapointment! The subject of this thread sounded really
> really cool; imagine putting a whole operating system into an emacs
> variable! That would have been really cool!

(defvar system
  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert-file-contents-literally
     (cond ((file-executable-p "/etc/init") "/etc/init")
	   ((file-executable-p "C:\\sys\\windows.exe")	; or whatever
	    "C:\\sys\\windows.exe")))
    (buffer-string))
  "The current operating system.")


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Re: Operating system in an emacs variable?

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com> writes:
>      (cond ((file-executable-p "/etc/init") "/etc/init")

Your notion of "operating system" is very restricted, to say the least.
Try something like "/vmlinuz" or some such instead (there's no standard
name for it).


        Stefan "who also first understood the subject line this way"

Re: Operating system in an emacs variable?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>>>>>"Kevin" == Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com> writes:
>>>>>>
>>     (cond ((file-executable-p "/etc/init") "/etc/init")
>>
> 
> Your notion of "operating system" is very restricted, to say the least.
> Try something like "/vmlinuz" or some such instead (there's no standard
> name for it).
 

I think on SunOS it was called /vmunix, but on my system (Solaris 7)
there's no such file.  On Solaris, process 0 is sched, for which I can't
find a binary, and process 1 is /etc/init.

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Re: Operating system in an emacs variable?

[Kai Großjohann]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

>  I think on SunOS it was called /vmunix, but on my system (Solaris 7)
> there's no such file.

Is it /stand/kernel there?  SysV uses a different naming convention
for these things...
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Re: Operating system in an emacs variable?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Kai Großjohann wrote:


> Is it /stand/kernel there?  SysV uses a different naming convention
> for these things...

Nope:

/stand: No such file or directory


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