Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 22:51:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: cracauer@cons.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: freebsd-emulation@freefall.FreeBSD.org, rivers@dignus.com Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). Message-ID: <199710100251.WAA08073@lakes.dignus.com>
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> > Shouldn't this be in -emulation? Probably should - I'm not subscribed to that; and don't keep track with just what news groups there are... > > > Add a program named "uname" to /compat/linux/bin or such that puts out > > hardcoded strings of your choice. > > For kicks today I decided to see if an IDL 5.0 demo would run under > FreeBSD. It quickly quit, unable to ID the system to one it knew. Was > still running startup shell scripts at the time. > > I put ~/bin in the front of $path, and a uname shell script that simply > said "echo Linux". Got IDL to run a little bit further. Said it thought > I had pseudo 8 color when it really wanted TrueColor 16. Then it died. > > Am not going to lose any sleep over it. Thought someone might be > interested. > But - I'm talking about the uname() system call, not the uname program... - Dave R. - > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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