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37 .Nd get system identification
43 .Fn uname "struct utsname *name"
47 function stores nul-terminated strings of information identifying
48 the current system into the structure referenced by
53 structure is defined in the
55 header file, and contains the following members:
56 .Bl -tag -width nodenameXXXX -offset indent
58 Name of the operating system implementation.
60 Network name of this machine.
62 Release level of the operating system.
64 Version level of the operating system.
66 Machine hardware platform.
71 is successful, 0 is returned, otherwise, \-1 is returned and
77 function may fail and set
79 for any of the errors specified for the library functions
92 function first appeared in