Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 07:34:07 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). Message-ID: <19971011073407.MA36555@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199710110219.WAA11043@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Oct 10, 1997 22:19:54 -0400 References: <199710110219.WAA11043@lakes.dignus.com>
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As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > For this reason, and since it did meet the goal of raising FreeBSD > awareness - I'm going to suggest we not do a sysctl... You are running > on FreeBSD and you should let everyone know about it! I think defaulting it to the FreeBSD values, but providing a sysctl meets both goals: you still don't do false claims, and can kick a stupid vendor in the butt once you notice a problem. OTOH, stupid vendors often aren't right away known for their within-2-hours response, in particular when it comes to freeware operating systems, so in the meantime, you can say sysctl -w machdep.linuxemu.uname.sysname=linux sysctl -w machdep.linuxemu.uname.version=2.0.12.5 ...to get around the problem until the fix arrives. -- 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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