From owner-freebsd-commit  Sat Jul  8 19:58:42 1995
Return-Path: commit-owner
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA15602
          for commit-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 19:58:42 -0700
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA15564
          for cvs-sys-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 19:57:18 -0700
Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (peter@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65])
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA15553
          ; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 19:57:03 -0700
Received: (from peter@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12/DIALix) id KAA02230; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 10:56:59 +0800
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 10:56:58 +0800 (WST)
From: Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.dialix.com>
To: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sysctl.c
In-Reply-To: <199507090249.TAA15306@freefall.cdrom.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91.950709105622.18757G-100000@haywire.DIALix.COM>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: commit-owner@FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

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...

-Peter