linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

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Date:	Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:15:46 -0400
From:	Colin Walters <walters@...bum.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Details. Examples. Name the f&*cking names already. Shame them publicly.

A notable one is that Python now reports "linux3" from sys.platform();
which in turn can break things that were checking sys.platform() ==
"linux2".

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564

Seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using
'==' instead of .startswith().
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