From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon May 25 16:11:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29056 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Mon, 25 May 1998 16:11:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu (jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu [129.49.123.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29050 for ; Mon, 25 May 1998 16:11:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfanning@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu) Received: (from cfanning@localhost) by jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id TAA26490 for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 May 1998 19:01:49 GMT From: Chris Fanning Message-Id: <199805251901.TAA26490@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu> Subject: Linux uname(3) and licensed apps To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 19:01:49 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just read all the posts about uname(3) returning "FreeBSD" instead of Linux. Evangelism aside, I have an application that requires uname() to return Linux. I've spoken with them and they have no intention of providing a workaround until September earliest. The application uses uname() and then says that it requires "Linux 2.0 or Solaris 2.5" to run and exits. What can I do to get uname() to report some bogus Linux info so I can run this app? Again, I'm not interested in evangelism. Whining to them about a FreeBSD version or compatible version is not going to help matters - I already tried. The reason they do this is sound to me. They're checking for a specific version of Linux that their product is supported on. Other versions are not supported. Makes sense since Linux is such a moving target. Even with the above mentioned Sepember workaround - even if the software runs - it won't be supported by them on other platforms. What do I have to do to get this running? Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message