From owner-freebsd-commit Mon Jul 10 09:37:37 1995 Return-Path: commit-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA14517 for commit-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 09:37:37 -0700 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA14499 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 09:36:14 -0700 Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk ([194.72.238.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA14491 ; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 09:36:10 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA02603; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 17:36:24 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199507101636.RAA02603@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sysctl.c To: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 17:36:24 +0100 (BST) Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Peter Wemm" at Jul 9, 95 10:56:58 am Reply-to: paul@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 971 Sender: commit-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Peter Wemm who said > > On Sat, 8 Jul 1995, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Modified: sys/kern kern_sysctl.c > > Log: > > This implements enough of the BSDI extensions to the net-2 ogetkerninfo() > > syscall to allow applications linked against their libc's uname() to > > work. Netscape 1.1N being a prime example, which prints: > > "uname() failed. cant tell what system we're running on". > > This change is a little ugly, but that's mainly because of the "interesting" > > semantics of the BSDI extension. > > Since ogetkerninfo() is only enabled by COMPAT_43, Netscape will only > > be affected on kernels with that option (eg: "GENERIC") > > Reviewed by: davidg > > Sorry. I forgot to mention that it closes PR 562... Umm, well, close it then? -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)