Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 07:54:17 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) To: freebsd-emulation@freefall.FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). Message-ID: <199710101754.HAA17182@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> "Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3)." (Oct 10, 3:12pm)
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
} } 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 ?= } ? } This is absurd. When you're emulating another OS you want to get as close as possible to acting just like that OS. Period. The goal is to run software. If the emulation is incomplete then chances are some things won't run -- which means the emulator fails it's primary task. If you find the `Linux' report to be that hideous then make the output configurable. But the default action should be as close to what Linux produces as possible. If Linux software doesn't run, for any reason, then the emulator has failed. Richard
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199710101754.HAA17182>