From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 5 13:26:37 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles530.castles.com [208.214.165.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8798514BCF; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:26:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14314; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:22:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907052022.NAA14314@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Peter Wemm Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jul 1999 03:43:03 +0800." <19990705194303.B32C664@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 13:22:37 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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. We discussed this at length; there are good technical reasons for returning "linux" here, certainly much better reasons than childish vanity on the part of people that refuse to run the FreeBSD Netscape binary. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message