[OpenAFS-devel] DRAFT: New sysname standard

[Art Freeman]

Phil,

Why not use the operating system version string supplied by the vendor without modifications?  This would
prevent the ambiguities you referred to.  

--art

Phil.Moore@morganstanley.com wrote:
> 
 
>    * Operating System Version
> 
>      This field identifies the numeric operating system version. For simplicity (and ease of reading), version numbers which are
>      all single digits can have the dots unambiguously removed. For example, "2.4" would be represented as "24", or "2.4.1" could
>      be represented as "241", but "2.41" could not be simplified to "241" since it would be ambiguous; does it represent "2.41" or
>      "24.1"?