Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 14:17:11 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c Message-ID: <199907052017.OAA57498@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:12:12 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907052208310.3770-100000@gold.amis.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907052208310.3770-100000@gold.amis.net>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907052208310.3770-100000@gold.amis.net> Blaz Zupan writes: : I don't want to rehash an old thread (and please don't hit me too hard if : the comments below have already be talked about), but I completely : disagree. What is more important to us: better working linux emulation or : reporting the "correct" OS type when visting web sites with Netscape? It is better to not bloat the netscape numbers. Also, uname is returning what OS we are running on.... : How can we possibly conclude that just fixing uname(1) will do it? Who : says that there isn't a binary installation for some linux software that : doesn't use the uname(1) command and so will possibly break because we : report FreeBSD as the OS type? Theoretically, yes, this could be the case. To date, none have surfaced. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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