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.

Installation

See installation. The package is called libelektra5-extra.

Special Values

This plugin defines following keynames below its mount point:

sysname
nodename
release
version
machine

Errors

The only documented error in uname(2) is when an invalid buffer is passed to it. As this is an implementation error only, this plugin should not run into errors.

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