Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:03:03 -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: <199710102003.QAA09577@lakes.dignus.com>
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> > In reply to Thomas David Rivers who wrote: > > > > > > 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 ?? > > > > > 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? > > That should have nothing to do with it, but some vendors are just plain > stupid, and we shouldn't pad them on the shoudler for that. > > > Since there are many different variants of Linux emulation; I'd suggest > > we simply report our emulation version as the OS version. > > We allready do that, sort of.. > > > And - we would not be advertising ourselves as Linux; but simply > > being faithful to the emulation... > > That was NOT what I meant, certain programs uses the uname info to > log to other parties that they've "been there", we don't want the > statistics to be in favour of linux here, when it actually was a > FreeBSD system that made the connection. > It has nothing to do with fait, its hard facts :) I hadn't considered that - it does make a lot of sense... and, I agree with you... How 'bout a sysctl then, so people could adjust this if needed... - Dave Rivers - > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > Even more code to hack -- will it ever end > ..
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