From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 9 11:34:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11639 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:34:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11634 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:34:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA07055; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:34:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA05814; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:33:58 -0700 Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:33:58 -0700 Message-Id: <199811091933.MAA05814@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "David E. Cross" , Steve Kargl , nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname In-Reply-To: <9442.910635058@time.cdrom.com> References: <9442.910635058@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think the correct thing to do here is simply give uname(1) some > truly switchable behavior, as Steve's second patch did. The user then has to be aware of the 'LINUX_EMULATION' environment variable, which is non-intuitive. The /compat/linux script is a much better solution since it doesn't require any magic environment knowledge that must be modified if you run binaries from multiple 'emulated' OS's. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message