Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 13:24:28 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net>, 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: <199907052024.NAA14339@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jul 1999 14:17:11 MDT." <199907052017.OAA57498@harmony.village.org>
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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.... 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
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