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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
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In-Reply-To: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>
       "Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3)." (Oct 10,  3:12pm)
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} 
} NO, I think this is a bad idea. First off it _is_ not a Linux system,
} second the next thing is you will have to report an os version. Now tell
} me which of the bezillions Linux's versions are we going to call us then =
} ?
} And besides some programs uses this to tell other services which platform
} they are running on, we dont want to advertise ourselves as Linux do we ?=
} ?
} 

This is absurd.

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

The goal is to run software.  If the emulation is incomplete then
chances are some things won't run -- which means the emulator fails it's
primary task.

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.

If Linux software doesn't run, for any reason, then the emulator has failed.


Richard