NetBSD Problem Report #53020

From paul@whooppee.com  Mon Feb 12 23:49:48 2018
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 07:49:15 +0800 (+08)
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Subject: Enhancement: uname(1) should be able to read a kernel image file
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>Number:         53020
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       teach uname(1) to read kernel image file
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 12 23:50:00 +0000 2018
>Last-Modified:  Tue Feb 13 00:00:01 +0000 2018
>Originator:     Paul Goyette
>Release:        NetBSD 8.99.12
>Organization:
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| Paul Goyette     | PGP Key fingerprint:     | E-mail addresses:          |
| (Retired)        | FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul at whooppee dot com   |
| Kernel Developer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgoyette at netbsd dot org |
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>Environment:


System: NetBSD speedy.whooppee.com 8.99.12 NetBSD 8.99.12 (SPEEDY 2018-02-12 00:00:12 UTC) #3: Mon Feb 12 06:57:12 UTC 2018 paul@speedy.whooppee.com:/build/netbsd-local/obj/amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/SPEEDY amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
It would be useful for uname(1) to be able to extract the operating system
details from an arbitrary kernel image, via /dev/kmem grovelling, in
addition to being able to extract from the running OS via uname(3).

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


>Audit-Trail:
From: Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/53020: Enhancement: uname(1) should be able to read a kernel
 image file
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:54:21 +0100

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 It makes sense. The current solution to achieve the same is to use what(1=
 ):

 $ what /netbsd

 /netbsd
 	NetBSD 8.99.7 (GENERIC) #12: Fri Nov 24 21:50:24 CET 2017


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From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/53020: Enhancement: uname(1) should be able to read a kernel
 image file
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 07:57:18 +0800 (+08)

 On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:

 > It makes sense. The current solution to achieve the same is to use what(1=
 > ):
 >
 > $ what /netbsd
 >
 > /netbsd
 > 	NetBSD 8.99.7 (GENERIC) #12: Fri Nov 24 21:50:24 CET 2017

 Yes, but that doesn't allow retrieval of selectable items as do the
 command-line options for uname(1).

>Unformatted:

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