Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 16:49:09 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Cc: freebsd-emulation@freefall.FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). Message-ID: <199710110719.QAA00683@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Oct 1997 07:54:17 -1000." <199710101754.HAA17182@pegasus.com>
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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
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