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Date:      Mon, 5 Jul 1999 16:28:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.990705162540.21465B-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907052032.NAA14416@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote:

> > In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.990705162921.15168C-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> Bill 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.

scripts run uname(1).. that's different


> 
> > Warner
> > 
> > P.S.  I'd be happy with a sysctl which defaults to "FreeBSD" but which
> > users could set to "Linux"
> 
> 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)


> -- 
> \\  The mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
> \\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> \\    -- Joseph Merrick           \\  msmith@cdrom.com
> 
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> 



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