send uname() release as IV_PLAT_VER= on non-windows versions

This is highly system specific, as the content of the uname()
structure elements is not specified very well - uname(3) says:

      release       Release level of the operating system

which translates to "IV_PLAT_VER=13.3-RELEASE-p6" (FreeBSD) or
"IV_PLAT_VER=22.6.0" (macOS) - the latter being the "Mach Kernel
version", not what Apple calls the OS.

It's still useful if a server operator needs to keep track of
client versions (and the GUI does not set the corresponding
environment variable, which neither Tunnelblick nor NM do).

v2: manpage amendments
v3: whitespace
v4: reword manpage

Github: OpenVPN/openvpn#637

Change-Id: Id2b0c5a517f02e5c219fea2ae3ef2bdef7690169
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Message-Id: <20241104085808.17039-1-gert@greenie.muc.de>
URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg29699.html
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
(cherry picked from commit d5b4713153)
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Gert Doering 2024-11-04 09:58:08 +01:00
parent a5d2544ca3
commit f104d00af8
3 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -430,7 +430,10 @@ configuration.
The version of the operating system, e.g. 6.1 for Windows 7.
This may be set by the client UI/GUI using ``--setenv``.
On Windows systems it is automatically determined by openvpn
itself.
itself. On other platforms OpenVPN will default to sending
the information returned by the `uname()` system call in
the `release` field, which is usually the currently running
kernel version. This is highly system specific, though.
:code:`UV_<name>=<value>`
Client environment variables whose names start with

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@ -2149,6 +2149,10 @@ push_peer_info(struct buffer *buf, struct tls_session *session)
buf_printf(&out, "IV_SSL=%s\n", get_ssl_library_version() );
#if defined(_WIN32)
buf_printf(&out, "IV_PLAT_VER=%s\n", win32_version_string(&gc, false));
#else
struct utsname u;
uname(&u);
buf_printf(&out, "IV_PLAT_VER=%s\n", u.release);
#endif
}

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@ -347,6 +347,10 @@ typedef int MIB_TCP_STATE;
#include <sys/mman.h>
#endif
#ifndef _WIN32
#include <sys/utsname.h>
#endif
/*
* Pedantic mode is meant to accomplish lint-style program checking,
* not to build a working executable.