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Xref: sserve comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x:634 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:2658 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape - this is ridiculous Date: 24 Jun 1995 13:18:55 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3sgsav$795@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <1995Jun18.022947.20174@rhrk.uni-kl.de> <3s64aj$n87@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <JWZ.95Jun21020306@abattoir.netscape.com> <3sf68r$ll7@godzilla.zeta.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: >In article <JWZ.95Jun21020306@abattoir.netscape.com>, >> struct utsname uts; >> if (uname (&uts) < 0) >> ... print error message ... >> >>So it would appear that the uname() call always fails. > >Under FreeBSD, uname() is a library function that does a bunch of sysctl()s >to read the names. Hmm, this would explain why it fails: the BSDi binary expects it to be a syscall, and we don't have that syscall? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)