From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 10 22:52:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA02223 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 22:52:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA02218 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 22:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA11244 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 07:52:13 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA16179; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 07:34:07 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971011073407.MA36555@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 07:34:07 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). References: <199710110219.WAA11043@lakes.dignus.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199710110219.WAA11043@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Oct 10, 1997 22:19:54 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > For this reason, and since it did meet the goal of raising FreeBSD > awareness - I'm going to suggest we not do a sysctl... You are running > on FreeBSD and you should let everyone know about it! I think defaulting it to the FreeBSD values, but providing a sysctl meets both goals: you still don't do false claims, and can kick a stupid vendor in the butt once you notice a problem. OTOH, stupid vendors often aren't right away known for their within-2-hours response, in particular when it comes to freeware operating systems, so in the meantime, you can say sysctl -w machdep.linuxemu.uname.sysname=linux sysctl -w machdep.linuxemu.uname.version=2.0.12.5 ...to get around the problem until the fix arrives. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)