From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 5 13:36:50 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 35C5E14BD7; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:36:46 -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 NAA14416; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:32:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907052032.NAA14416@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh Cc: Bill Fumerola , 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 14:30:15 MDT." <199907052030.OAA57753@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 13:32:47 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > In message Bill Fumerola writes: > : jourynx time sheet does. > > Is this for the installation, or for the actual running of the program. > > Are there any others? Lots. Every third-party script that runs "uname" (and no, we can't patch them all) just for starters. > Warner > > P.S. I'd be happy with a sysctl which defaults to "FreeBSD" but which > users could set to "Linux" That's not good enough. It needs to default to "Linux", and if you want it to return "FreeBSD" that should probably be on an application-specific basis. Nothing else makes any sense. -- \\ 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