RE: OSUtils

How about recommending to include some networking info like: ip-address(es)
and/or hostname(es)?  I could imagine some processes wanting to behave
differently depending on which node they were running on, especially in a
clustered environment.  Possibly could be useful to include some memory info
as well: you might choose to operate differently in a small- vs large-memory
environment.

I guess you could just go crazy with this stuff, but those seem like some
pretty useful bits to me.

-Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xproc-dev-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:xproc-dev-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Norman Walsh
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 7:13 AM
> To: XProc Dev
> Subject: OSUtils
> 
> Along the same lines as fileutils, here's a proposal for some osutils:
> 
> <p:library xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc"
> 	   xmlns:cx="http://xmlcalabash.com/ns/extensions"
> 	   xmlns:cxo="http://xmlcalabash.com/ns/extensions/osutils"
> 	   xmlns:ml="http://xmlcalabash.com/ns/extensions/marklogic"
> 	   xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
> 
> <p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <div>
> <h1>OS utils Library</h1>
> <h2>Version 1.0</h2>
> <p>The steps defined in this library provide information 
> about the underlying operating system and its environment.
> </p>
> </div>
> </p:documentation>
> 
> <!-- ============================================================ -->
> 
> <p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <p>The <code>cxo:info</code> step returns information about 
> the OS on which the processor is running. It returns a 
> <code>c:result</code> element with attributes describing 
> properties of the system. It <strong>should</strong> include 
> the following properties:</p> <dl> <dt>file-separator</dt> 
> <dd>The file separator; usually "/" on Unix, "\" on 
> Windows.</dd> <dt>path-separator</dt> <dd>The path separator; 
> usually ":" on Unix, ";" on Windows.</dd> 
> <dt>os-architecture</dt> <dd>The operating system 
> architecture, for example "i386".</dd> <dt>os-name</dt> 
> <dd>The name of the operating system, for example "Mac OS 
> X".</dd> <dt>os-version</dt> <dd>The version of the operating 
> system, for example "10.5.6".</dd> <dt>cwd</dt> <dd>The 
> current working directory.</dd> <dt>user-name</dt> <dd>The 
> login name of the effective user, for example "ndw".</dd> 
> <dt>user-home</dt> <dd>The home diretory of the effective 
> user, for example "/home/ndw".</dd> </dl> <p>The exact set of 
> properties returned is implementation-dependent.</p> 
> </p:documentation>
> 
> <p:declare-step type="cxo:info">
>   <p:output port="result"/>
> </p:declare-step>
> 
> <!-- ============================================================ -->
> 
> <p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <p>The <code>cxo:cwd</code> step returns a single 
> <code>c:result</code> containing the current working 
> directory. On systems which have no concept of a working 
> directory, this step returns the empty sequence.
> </p>
> <p>(This step is exactly duplicates the <code>cwd</code> 
> attribute on the <code>c:result</code> from 
> <code>cxo:info</code>; it's just for convenience.)</p> 
> </p:documentation>
> 
> <p:declare-step type="cxo:cwd">
>   <p:output port="result" sequence="true"/> </p:declare-step>
> 
> <!-- ============================================================ -->
> 
> <p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <p>The <code>cxo:env</code> step returns information about 
> the environment.
> It returns a <code>c:result</code> containing zero or more 
> <code>c:env</code> elements. Each <code>c:env</code> has 
> <code>name</code> and <code>value</code> attributes 
> containing the name and value of an environment variable.</p> 
> <p>On systems which nave no concept of an environment, this 
> step returns an empty <code>c:result</code>.</p> </p:documentation>
> 
> <p:declare-step type="cxo:env">
>   <p:output port="result"/>
> </p:declare-step>
> 
> </p:library>
> 
> On XML Calabash, cxo:info returns somethign like this:
> 
>    <c:result xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step"
>              file-separator="/"
>              path-separator=":"
>              os-architecture="i386"
>              os-name="Mac OS X"
>              os-version="10.5.6"
>              cwd="/projects/src/calabash"
>              user-name="ndw"
>              user-home="/Users/ndw"/>
> 
> and cxo:env returns:
> 
>    <c:result xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step">
>       <c:env name="LANG" value="en_US.UTF-8"/>
>       <c:env name="EDITOR" value="emacs"/>
>       <c:env name="Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render" 
> value="/tmp/launch-yriAWk/Render"/>
>       <c:env name="PWD" value="/projects/src/calabash"/>
>       <c:env name="JAVA_ARCH" value="i386"/>
>       <c:env name="LOGNAME" value="ndw"/>
>       <c:env name="MAIL" value="/var/mail/ndw"/>
>       <c:env name="COMMAND_MODE" value="unix2003"/>
>       <c:env name="INFOPATH" 
> value="/usr/local/info:/usr/info:/share/info"/>
>       <c:env name="JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_556" 
> value="com.xmlcalabash.drivers.Main"/>
>       <c:env name="PDFLIBRESOURCE" value="/Users/ndw/.pdflib.upr"/>
>       <c:env name="GNUS" 
> value="/Applications/Gnus.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs"/>
>       ...
>    </c:result>
> 
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
> 
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