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To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jul 1999 12:18:04 MST."
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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 03:43:03 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> marcel      1999/07/05 12:18:04 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/i386/linux       linux_misc.c 
>   Log:
>   Let newuname return "Linux" as the OS name and not "FreeBSD". Also, return 
    a
>   more sensible (for Linux applications) release number. Hardcoding a release
>   number has its drawbacks, but it will do for now.

No no! :-)

Actually, this was deliberately left as FreeBSD because of things like
netscape etc which record the name in the request.

You'd be better off tweaking uname(1) for install scripts etc that are
version sensitive.

Cheers,
-Peter




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