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Oh, just by the way:

> When you're emulating another OS you want to get as close as possible
> to acting just like that OS.  Period.

We aren't emulating another OS; we are providing an ABI compatability 
layer such that programs built for Linux can be run.  We are FreeBSD.

> If you find the `Linux' report to be that hideous then make the output
> configurable.  But the default action should be as close to what Linux
> produces as possible.

It already is, and several of us have already explained exactly how one 
would go about doing this.

mike