On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 3:50 PM Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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).
