uname: make OS name configurable

A mailing list thread in September 2013 discussed changing the string
returned by the non-POSIX 'uname -o' option.  Nothing ever came of this
because there was no agreement as to what the string should be.

Make the string configurable so that people can decide for themselves.

Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy@frippery.org>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/coreutils/Config.src b/coreutils/Config.src
index 02155d220..ffbef1a31 100644
--- a/coreutils/Config.src
+++ b/coreutils/Config.src
@@ -630,6 +630,14 @@ config UNAME
         help
           uname is used to print system information.
 
+config UNAME_OSNAME
+        string "Operating system name"
+        default "GNU/Linux"
+        depends on UNAME
+        help
+          Sets the operating system name reported by uname -o.  The
+          default is "GNU/Linux".
+
 config UNEXPAND
         bool "unexpand"
         default y