Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 14:45:51 +0100 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> To: kim culhan <kimc@w8hd.w8hd.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: anyone care to investigate this? Message-ID: <13605.803655951@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 1995 09:10:28 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.91.950620090854.5242A-100000@w8hd.w8hd.org>
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> On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > In comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x Christoph Weber-Fahr <weber@rhrk.uni-kl. de> wrote: > > > P.S. to the FreeBSD side - why does Netscape give an error message about > > > a failed uname() call on startup, when running on 2.0R ? > > > > It's a bug in the implementation of the uname() library routine, or somethi ng > > related to it. I don't know exactly what the problem is on FreeBSD, but th e > > same problem existed on BSDI, until they fixed it. The Netscape FAQ says: > > FWIW, on 2.0.5 -current I see no errors returned on Netscape startup. jkh@whisker-> uname -a FreeBSD whisker.internet-eireann.ie 2.0.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE #0: Sat Jun 17 19:11:37 BST 1995 jkh@whisker.internet-eireann.ie:/usr/src/sys/compile/WHISKER i386 jkh@whisker-> netscape netscape: uname() failed; can't tell what system we're running on Perhaps you're not using Netscape 1.1R? I wouldn't have forwarded this if I hadn't also seen it myself.. :-) Jordan
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