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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:28:26 -0400
From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com>
To: "Alex Zbyslaw" <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm
	running linux?
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I don't know how to find out, except that the app is the Crossover
Office demo installer. I'd like to try to find a way to trick it into
running in the linux compatability mode of FreeBSD if I can.

On 6/18/06, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> Jim Stapleton wrote:
>
> > Basically, I have an application that doesn't want to run in FreeBSD,
> > though it may still run given the compatability layer. I was wondering
> > if there was some way to make the OS respond when it ran the
> > application, that it was linux and not BSD.
> > i.e.
> >
> >
> > ========================================
> > $ ./some_app
> > Sorry, we only deal with Linux people, go away!
> >
> > $ sysctl.pretend.register /home/me/some_app "generic-i386-linux"
> > $ ./some_app
> > Hello world!
> > ========================================
>
> That really rather depends on *how* the app is asking.  If you can tell
> us that, we can almost certainly tell you how to fool it.
>
> Of course, if you have the source code, it should be easy as you can
> just comment out the test and recompile.
>
> Mind you, if the app is as short-sighted and bloody-minded as its
> developers, maybe you should just look for an alternative.
>
> --Alex
>
>
>