Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:52:57 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: new dummy syscalls for linuxolator -> new console ?messages Message-ID: <20060615095257.8o2kcszjms0o04o8@netchild.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <200606141245.k5ECjjjY086499@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200606141245.k5ECjjjY086499@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Quoting Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> (from Wed, 14 Jun 2006 =20 14:45:45 +0200 (CEST)): > Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> wrote: > > Quoting Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> wrote: > > > [...] > > > I doubt anyone will see any messages unless he/she sets > > > compat.linux.osrelease > > > to something higher then 2.6.16 > > > > Which is not recommended except you don't mind running into bugs and > > getting coredumps from some programs. > > That's interesting to know. Is that documented somewhere? > I always set the sysctls like this (e.g. on FreeBSD 6.1): > > compat.linux.osrelease: 6.1 > compat.linux.osname: FreeBSD > > (I have an rc.d script which uses the output from uname -rs > to set those two sysctls accordingly.) > > So far, I have never encountered any problems. I'm doing The linux base behaves differently based upon at least the osrelease. =20 It will use other syscalls when using 2.6.x than with 2.4.x. Fedora =20 Core 5 fails to work completely with the current value of osrelease. I =20 haven't tested yet, if the current default linux base port behaves =20 differently or or not. > that because I use the Linux binary of Opera, and I prefer > the "User-Agent" header to say FreeBSD instead of Linux, > so it will be counted correctly for sites that collect > statistics about the OS of their visitors. > > Should I expect to run into problems with that in the > future? If so, I think a warning should be added to the Yes. > linux(4) manpage. I agree. Bye, Alexander. --=20 Selling GoodYear Eagle F1 235/40ZR18, 2x 4mm + 2x 5mm, ~150 EUR you have to pick it up between Germany/Saarland and Luxembourg/Capellen http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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