From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Emmanuel Colbus <ecolbus@manux.info>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][2/11][MANUX] Kernel compatibility : uname(2)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:55:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140415155516.5efcac25@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534D3757.3040800@manux.info>
> Thus, I decided to fake a Linux-like answer on this syscall, and
> implement another syscall where I could put what I wanted. In practice,
> I currently identify myself as "Linux 2.6.35" through uname(2), but
> "Manux 0.0.5" through my uname_vect(2) syscall.
>
> Is it okay to do this? Do you have any objections or remarks?
If you are trying to be ABI compatible then replying with a "Linux"
version that it is compatible with might actually be extraordinarily
sensible.
Alan
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