From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Oct 9 19:10:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA15561 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:10:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA15554 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:10:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-16.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.16]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA02569; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:10:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA13256; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:10:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199710100210.VAA13256@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Martin Cracauer cc: Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-emulation@freefall.FreeBSD.org From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). In-reply-to: Message from Martin Cracauer of "Fri, 10 Oct 1997 01:40:16 +0200." <19971010014016.54859@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 21:10:01 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Shouldn't this be in -emulation? > Add a program named "uname" to /compat/linux/bin or such that puts out > hardcoded strings of your choice. For kicks today I decided to see if an IDL 5.0 demo would run under FreeBSD. It quickly quit, unable to ID the system to one it knew. Was still running startup shell scripts at the time. I put ~/bin in the front of $path, and a uname shell script that simply said "echo Linux". Got IDL to run a little bit further. Said it thought I had pseudo 8 color when it really wanted TrueColor 16. Then it died. Am not going to lose any sleep over it. Thought someone might be interested. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.