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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X crashes when switching to ttyv? , uname() fails
Date: 12 Jan 1996 23:18:43 GMT
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Ryan Schutt <rschutt@vt.edu> writes:

> 2.)  uname() fails for some reason.  Altough not a serious
> problem, I am still curious why.  It is the system call
> uname(), not the environment variable (I have it set).

For running Netscape?  This has been fixed meanwhile (FreeBSD itself
is using uname(3), not uname(2), but the Netscape binary took the
latter).  It's benign however.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)