From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:11:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E53D145.7070207@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADkLE3Ux1gVBR0f1VUNP4JDsnDQPUQ8rJrXqPV7-2kdLW0_CCw@mail.gmail.com>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-23 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-19 23:15 [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers Andi Kleen
2011-08-21 22:28 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-21 22:37 ` Jesper Juhl
2011-08-21 23:15 ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-21 23:13 ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-21 23:32 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-22 0:11 ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-22 1:04 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-22 1:46 ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-22 9:54 ` Américo Wang
2011-08-22 18:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-22 18:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-08-22 19:03 ` David Daney
2011-08-22 19:34 ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-23 13:15 ` Colin Walters
2011-08-23 16:11 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-08-23 16:20 ` Colin Walters
2011-08-23 17:35 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-24 14:19 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-08-24 17:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-13 14:12 ` Pavel Machek
2011-09-13 14:36 ` Stratos Psomadakis
2011-09-13 15:50 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-13 23:06 ` Stratos Psomadakis
2011-08-23 6:00 ` [PATCH] setarch: Add --uname-2.6 option for personality flag UNAME26 Ben Hutchings
2011-08-23 10:16 ` Karel Zak
2011-08-23 12:15 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-08-26 21:43 ` Greg KH
2011-08-29 9:17 ` Karel Zak
2011-08-23 12:44 ` [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers Arnd Bergmann
2011-08-26 21:43 ` Greg KH
2011-08-26 22:25 ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-26 22:35 ` Greg KH
2011-08-27 16:36 ` Jesper Juhl
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2011-07-07 23:42 Andi Kleen
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