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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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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.



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