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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4d6q8j$h7c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <30F33EE6.41C67EA6@vt.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 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. ;-)