From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 5 13:59: 6 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E2915079; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686FA78; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 04:58:52 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith Cc: Warner Losh , Bill Fumerola , Blaz Zupan , Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jul 1999 13:32:47 MST." <199907052032.NAA14416@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:58:52 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990705205852.686FA78@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mike Smith wrote: > > In message B ill Fumerola writes: > > : jourynx time sheet does. > > > > Is this for the installation, or for the actual running of the program. > > > > Are there any others? > > Lots. Every third-party script that runs "uname" (and no, we can't > patch them all) just for starters. IMHO, it would have been better to have linux_lib to also install /compat/linux/bin/uname along with the other binaries. If that returned "Linux" then there would be no need to hack install scripts. Incidently, from 1993 onwards, SVR4's uname(1) has allowed an environment variable to override the OS name so that uname(1) can say it's a UNIX, SCO, Xenix, whatever. Incidently, the linux uname() has *never* returned "Linux" before. It's been the real strings from day one. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message