From owner-cvs-all Tue Jul 6 11:18:11 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from car (unknown [212.247.168.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5159714D3B; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:17:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johan@granlund.nu) Received: from phoenix.granlund.nu (t5o62p43.telia.com [195.198.199.43]) by car (2.5 Build 2626 (Berkeley 8.8.6)/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA02667; Tue, 06 Jul 1999 20:17:39 +0200 Received: from localhost (johan@localhost) by phoenix.granlund.nu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA38556; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:15:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from johan@granlund.nu) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:15:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Johan Granlund To: cvs-all@Freebsd.ORG Cc: cvs-committers@Freebsd.ORG Subject: SVR4 emulation Was:(Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c ) In-Reply-To: <199907052017.OAA57498@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > : 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? > A long time ago i tried to install Lotus Notes for Solaris to be able to read company mail at home. I _think_ the SVR4 emulation reported FreeBSD. After trying to patch the installationscript i finally installed on a Solarisbox and moved the installation:) If uname(1) in SVR4 emulation reports FreeBSD, could it please be changed? /Johan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message