From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 9 12:18:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16607 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:18:17 -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 MAA16602 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:18:16 -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 NAA07414; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:16:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA06221; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:16:57 -0700 Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:16:57 -0700 Message-Id: <199811092016.NAA06221@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Steve Kargl Cc: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson), rivers@dignus.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname In-Reply-To: <199811091837.KAA10627@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <19981109121815.A6400@emsphone.com> <199811091837.KAA10627@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On the other hand, there are no good open source COBOL compilers. We > > run Microfocus COBOL under SCO emulation. I vote we change FreeBSD's > > uname to return "SCO_SV". Wait. I'm also running the BSD/OS Quake > > server. I vote we change FreeBSD's uname to return "BSD/OS". Wait. > > See a problem here? :) > > > > % setenv ALT_UNAME SCO_SV > % uname -s > SCO_SV > % setenv ALT_UNAME Linux > % uname -s > Linux > % setenv ALT_UNAME FooOS > % uname -s > FooOS > % unsetenv ALT_UNAME Ahh, but what happens when I have to run the same applications in the same shell? Do I have to modify my environment everytime I run a different application? Do I have to remember which 'emulated OS' the application runs? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message