Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:23:16 -0500 From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname Message-ID: <199811101526.KAA12977@geek.grf.ov.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811092352190.10145-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <199811100432.VAA09970@mt.sri.com>
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Are these ideas mutually exclusive? Is there any reason that a /compat/linux/bin/uname couldn't be scripted which could set the proper environment variable and call the /usr/bin/uname of FreeBSD? In it's absence, the standard /usr/bin/uname would be called. K.S. At 11:54 PM 11/9/98 , Chuck Robey wrote: >Nate, it *seems* that what I'm hearing from him is that he wants to hack >uname so that it would respond to the environmental variables that you >want him to write wrappers for. I think you're right, you want >wrappers, but the uname thing is something that most commercial wrappers >rely on. He just wants uname to listen to some environmental variables. > >If there's some other way to do it, I haven't seen it yet ... am I >wrong? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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