Subject: Re: uname fails with BSDI netscape
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/16/1996 10:09:29
>From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:48:56 -0800
>
>On Mon, 15 Jan 96 12:00:33 EST 
> Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com> wrote:
>
> > BSDI 1.1 used the COMPAT43 ogetsysinfo() (not sure about that name)
> > syscall in their uname() implementation.  The BSDI libc code for
> > uname() passes an argument that our ogetsysinfo() doesn't support, so
> > it fails.
>
>Does anyone know what this argument is?

I looked at this again last night.  The actual name of the syscall is
ogetkerninfo(), not ogetsysinfo().  The argument is 101.
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