Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 13:34:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: rivers@dignus.com, sos@sos.freebsd.dk Cc: cracauer@cons.org, freebsd-emulation@freefall.FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, jlemon@americantv.com Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). Message-ID: <199710101734.NAA09326@lakes.dignus.com>
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> > Maybe a sysctl, so people could taylor it, is the right thing to do. > > In any event, I think a uname() call under Linux emulation should claim > > to be "Linux" and not "FreeBSD". So, the default should be "Linux"... > > NO, I think this is a bad idea. First off it _is_ not a Linux system, > second the next thing is you will have to report an os version. Now tell > me which of the bezillions Linux's versions are we going to call us then ? > And besides some programs uses this to tell other services which platform > they are running on, we dont want to advertise ourselves as Linux do we ?? > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > Even more code to hack -- will it ever end > .. > Well - I suppose it comes down to just how much of an emulation we want to be... That is, do we want to be able to run any Linux program; or some (admittedly large) subset of them? Since there are many different variants of Linux emulation; I'd suggest we simply report our emulation version as the OS version. And - we would not be advertising ourselves as Linux; but simply being faithful to the emulation... - Dave Rivers -
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