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

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Message-ID: <4E53D145.7070207@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:11:49 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Colin Walters <walters@...bum.org>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers


> 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().

That's a good point. I googled for this pattern in google codesearch
and there are 10+ in the first two pages.

http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=lang:^python$%20sys.platform%20linux2&p=1&type=cs

-andi


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