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From: jwz@netscape.com (Jamie Zawinski)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape - this is ridiculous
Date: 21 Jun 1995 09:03:06 GMT
Organization: Netscape Communications Corporation
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In-reply-to: "Amancio Hasty, Jr."'s message of 20 Jun 1995 09:27:47 GMT
In comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x Amancio Hasty, Jr. <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote:
>
> jwz@netscape.com (Jamie Zawinski) wrote:
>>
>> Someone familiar with FreeBSD internals will have to figure this one out.
>
> Perhaps if you tell us what error condition are you checking for in uname we
> can fix it :)
struct utsname uts;
if (uname (&uts) < 0)
... print error message ...
So it would appear that the uname() call always fails.
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