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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.262s | source
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msoad ◴[30 Mar 16 17:15 UTC] No.11390994[source]▶
So what OS you're going to get when you run an application under this? So if I run this:

    node -e 'console.log(require("os").type())'
What it's going to print?
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1. davesque ◴[31 Mar 16 01:20 UTC] No.11394355[source]▶
Looks like, if a posix system is detected at compile time, it will return whatever it gets from the `uname` system call in `sys/utsname.h`:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/src/node_os.cc#L5...

Microsoft probably hard-codes a response of "Linux" (or whatever would be normal for Ubuntu) for that call to prevent Ubuntu binaries from freaking out.