Plugin: uname

• infos = Information about the uname plugin is in keys below
• infos/author = Markus Raab elekt.nosp@m.ra@l.nosp@m.ibele.nosp@m.ktra.nosp@m..org
• infos/licence = BSD
• infos/provides = storage/info
• infos/needs =
• infos/placements = getstorage setstorage
• infos/status = maintained unittest shelltest nodep readonly limited concept
• infos/description = Includes uname information into the key database.

Introduction

This plugin is a storage plugin that will use the syscall uname (2). No resolver is needed for that plugin to work.

Special Values

This plugin defines following keynames below its mount point:

• sysname
• nodename
• release
• version
• machine

Restrictions

This plugin is read-only.

Example

# To mount uname information using this plugin:
kdb mount -R noresolver none user/tests/uname uname
 
# List available data
kdb ls user/tests/uname/
#> user/tests/uname/machine
#> user/tests/uname/nodename
#> user/tests/uname/release
#> user/tests/uname/sysname
#> user/tests/uname/version
 
# Read the OS name
kdb get user/tests/uname/sysname
# STDOUT-REGEX: CYGWIN_NT.*|Darwin|DragonFly|FreeBSD|Linux|OpenBSD
 
# Read the OS version number
kdb get user/tests/uname/release
# STDOUT-REGEX: [0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)*[[:alnum:][:punct:]]*
 
# Unmount the plugin
kdb umount user/tests/uname