[OpenAFS-devel] Re: OpenAFS: conventions for new @sys? (rs_aix43 s390_linux22)

[R. Lindsay Todd]

Bob Cook wrote:

> >Now, a 'fs sysname -short' would be nice.
>
> You mean, like 'sys'?

The problem with "sys" is that it returns the compiled-in sysname, while
"fs sysname" returns the current @sys expansion, which may have been
changed with "fs sysname -new".  When I began setting @sys on our
AIX 4.3 systems to rs_aix43, we had a bunch of scripts using "sys"
break.  Now they parse out the correct result from "fs sysname", but it
is clunky.

I think many AFS command would benefit from an option that made the
results easier to parse from scripts...

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