Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:13:21 -0600 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, dnelson@emsphone.com, rivers@dignus.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname Message-ID: <199811101813.MAA11517@spawn.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <199811100634.WAA12678@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <199811100634.WAA12678@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Why would we not put a real linux uname(1) in /compat/linux/usr/bin? This is an emulation issue. Why impact the BSD userland sources? The path of munging BSD so that it looks like some other OS leads to just throwing out our userland and using some Linux distribution... or worse yet, an attempt to become some chameleon OS such as AIX. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org On 9 November 1998 at 22:34, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: [snip] > There is a point of "diminishing returns" with respect to > maintain a large collection of scripts, particularly when a 4 line > change to uname(1) will accommodate the majority of the vendor supplied > scripts. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNkiCQDeRhT8JRySpAQHT+wP/Sf1JgGjOQm/Om1GZ6NF7NcmwxWMm39Sx KkgdwE05xreTVBylXIUaFoxV1UwE/Mpo0sW1RFWnZ0Q3kz0TFtEaLMKUyXjz5wSa G98HVFkKKPHd+H1bSjAUg9JwQMBKIebRScvAGrAwCqLuxU0sBk8QWgWKUBZnmshf /R/+AahLxRw= =v1DS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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