Elektra: Plugin: uname

Elektra 0.8.24

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.

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 mountpoint:

- 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