Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:44:14 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: n@nectar.com (Jacques Vidrine) Cc: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, nate@mt.sri.com, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, dnelson@emsphone.com, rivers@dignus.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname Message-ID: <199811102044.VAA00261@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199811101813.MAA11517@spawn.nectar.com> from Jacques Vidrine at "Nov 10, 1998 12:13:21 pm"
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It seems Jacques Vidrine wrote: > > Why would we not put a real linux uname(1) in /compat/linux/usr/bin? > This is an emulation issue. Why impact the BSD userland sources? Hear hear!! > The path of munging BSD so that it looks like some other OS leads > to just throwing out our userland and using some Linux distribution... > or worse yet, an attempt to become some chameleon OS such as AIX. > > On 9 November 1998 Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > [snip] > > There is a point of "diminishing returns" with respect to > > maintain a large collection of scripts, particularly when a 4 line > > change to uname(1) will accommodate the majority of the vendor supplied > > scripts. Excuse me, but this is an emulation thing, and the soultion must be put into the emulator or the compat stuff, no matter how few lines it takes. Putting it into "generic" FreeBSD is bad engineering. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@freebsd.org) FreeBSD Core Team member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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