Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 07:14:42 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). Message-ID: <19971010071442.IG51247@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199710092227.SAA07605@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Oct 9, 1997 18:27:47 -0400 References: <199710092227.SAA07605@lakes.dignus.com>
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As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > 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... Why? After all, it's an emulation. Blame the vendor of the program for being stupid, and then patch the uname() call in your box. This check doesn't gain that vendor *anything*. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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