From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 5 13:28:36 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 072E4154DD; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:28:26 -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 NAA14339; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907052024.NAA14339@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh Cc: Blaz Zupan , 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 "Mon, 05 Jul 1999 14:17:11 MDT." <199907052017.OAA57498@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 13:24:28 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > In message 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.... If you care about the numbers, run the FreeBSD binary. > : 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. You obviously haven't been paying much attention. -- \\ 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