From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:01:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Advertise OS version
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 3:50 PM Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> wrote:

> > I don't mind if this is present but disabled by default, but then I
> > guess it is not really serving much of a purpose, as hardly anybody
> > would enable it. Which makes collecting large-scale statistics by
> > hosting providers pretty much useless (and I don't think it is all that
> > useful for debugging individual cases).
>
> I agree that it should actually be disabled by default, for privacy
> and security reasons, but that would actually defeat its purpose, so
> I'm not really sure should it be merged.

One possibility is to send just the `sysname`, described as 'Operating
system name (e.g., "Linux")', field of the struct utsname filled out
by uname(2) by default.

It should be the same as what `uname -s` prints, so "Linux" for a
Linux machine, and might be acceptable regarding privacy concerns.

And then there might be a knob to deactivate it completely or to make
it more verbose (which might be useful for example in a corporate
context).