From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 14 12:45:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7494A16A47C for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:45:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6915743D53 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:45:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (ronkdq@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5ECjjhY086500 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:45:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k5ECjjjY086499; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:45:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:45:45 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200606141245.k5ECjjjY086499@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-emulation User-Agent: tin/1.8.0-20051224 ("Ronay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:45:51 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: new dummy syscalls for linuxolator -> new console ?messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:45:55 -0000 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Divacky Roman wrote: > > [...] > > I doubt anyone will see any messages unless he/she sets > > compat.linux.osrelease > > to something higher then 2.6.16 > > Which is not recommended except you don't mind running into bugs and > getting coredumps from some programs. That's interesting to know. Is that documented somewhere? I always set the sysctls like this (e.g. on FreeBSD 6.1): compat.linux.osrelease: 6.1 compat.linux.osname: FreeBSD (I have an rc.d script which uses the output from uname -rs to set those two sysctls accordingly.) So far, I have never encountered any problems. I'm doing that because I use the Linux binary of Opera, and I prefer the "User-Agent" header to say FreeBSD instead of Linux, so it will be counted correctly for sites that collect statistics about the OS of their visitors. Should I expect to run into problems with that in the future? If so, I think a warning should be added to the linux(4) manpage. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "[...] one observation we can make here is that Python makes an excellent pseudocoding language, with the wonderful attribute that it can actually be executed." -- Bruce Eckel