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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c
In-Reply-To: <19990705194303.B32C664@overcee.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Jul 6, 1999  3:43: 3 am"
To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:55:13 +0200 (CEST)
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It seems Peter Wemm wrote:
> 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.

Exactly, have to be on Peter's side here, this has been discussed
numerous times, and it should be left as is...

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

Endeed...

-Søren


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