From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 15 07:52:58 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 EB3C716A479 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:52:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (jojo.ms-net.de [84.16.236.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2561D43D45 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:52:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (p54A5EB85.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.235.133]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5F7n2f1079712; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:49:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k5F7qvgD020239; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:52:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:52:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20060615095257.8o2kcszjms0o04o8@netchild.homeip.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:52:57 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Oliver Fromme References: <200606141245.k5ECjjjY086499@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200606141245.k5ECjjjY086499@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1) / FreeBSD-4.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new 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 List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:52:59 -0000 Quoting Oliver Fromme (from Wed, 14 Jun 2006 =20 14:45:45 +0200 (CEST)): > 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 The linux base behaves differently based upon at least the osrelease. =20 It will use other syscalls when using 2.6.x than with 2.4.x. Fedora =20 Core 5 fails to work completely with the current value of osrelease. I =20 haven't tested yet, if the current default linux base port behaves =20 differently or or not. > 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 Yes. > linux(4) manpage. I agree. Bye, Alexander. --=20 Selling GoodYear Eagle F1 235/40ZR18, 2x 4mm + 2x 5mm, ~150 EUR you have to pick it up between Germany/Saarland and Luxembourg/Capellen http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137