Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 01:40:16 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). Message-ID: <19971010014016.54859@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <199710092227.SAA07605@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 06:27:47PM -0400 References: <199710092227.SAA07605@lakes.dignus.com>
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In <199710092227.SAA07605@lakes.dignus.com>, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > I have a program, written for Linux, that uses the uname() information > as part of its license check... > > Unfortunately, the check fails... the company indicates that the > failure is due to incorrect uname() information. > > So - does the uname() call under Linux emulation claim to be a LINUX > box? - or - does it claim to be a FreeBSD box... > > Which should it do? Seems to me, for accurate Linux emulation, it should > claim to be Linux... Add a program named "uname" to /compat/linux/bin or such that puts out hardcoded strings of your choice. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg/Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/
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