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Date:      Tue, 06 Jul 1999 10:20:06 +0200
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c
Message-ID:  <3781BC36.301ED62D@scc.nl>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.990705162540.21465B-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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Julian Elischer wrote:

> > That's not good enough.  It needs to default to "Linux", and if you want
> > it to return "FreeBSD" that should probably be on an
> > application-specific basis.  Nothing else makes any sense.
> 
> To be truely correct we shout report whether readhat or what, and what
> version we are trying to emulate. and the libraries should match that
> version (or redhat or whatever)

That's exactly why I hardcoded 2.0.36 as the release for know. I've got a
couple of things that could be put in the MIB, of which the release is one.
Release 2.0.36 is the kernel release shipped in Red Hat 5.2, on which the
new ports are based. It's not an ad-hoc change :-)

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Marcel Moolenaar                                  mailto:marcel@scc.nl
SCC Internetworking & Databases                     http://www.scc.nl/
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