Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:28:26 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: "Alex Zbyslaw" <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux? Message-ID: <80f4f2b20606181428o270e0dedl885bf38540723b15@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4495C1DF.9040506@dial.pipex.com> References: <80f4f2b20606181355x3155c33dp1e498dea663000c5@mail.gmail.com> <4495C1DF.9040506@dial.pipex.com>
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I don't know how to find out, except that the app is the Crossover Office demo installer. I'd like to try to find a way to trick it into running in the linux compatability mode of FreeBSD if I can. On 6/18/06, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > Jim Stapleton wrote: > > > Basically, I have an application that doesn't want to run in FreeBSD, > > though it may still run given the compatability layer. I was wondering > > if there was some way to make the OS respond when it ran the > > application, that it was linux and not BSD. > > i.e. > > > > > > ======================================== > > $ ./some_app > > Sorry, we only deal with Linux people, go away! > > > > $ sysctl.pretend.register /home/me/some_app "generic-i386-linux" > > $ ./some_app > > Hello world! > > ======================================== > > That really rather depends on *how* the app is asking. If you can tell > us that, we can almost certainly tell you how to fool it. > > Of course, if you have the source code, it should be easy as you can > just comment out the test and recompile. > > Mind you, if the app is as short-sighted and bloody-minded as its > developers, maybe you should just look for an alternative. > > --Alex > > >
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