On Sun, 14 Jan 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know why the BSDI version of netscape reports that uname
> fails when trying to figure out what system it's running on, when
> running it on NetBSD (1.1)?

BSDI-1.1 uses getkerninfo syscall to get that information, it seems to be 
BSDI addition to getkerninfo.

from BSDI-1.1 sys/kinfo.h

/*
 * Remaining types added by BSDI; use temporary numbers unlikely
 * to conflict with Berkeley additions until merged.
 */

/*
 * sysinfo data
 */
#define KINFO_SYSINFO           (101 << 8)

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