CVS commit: src/sys/compat/linux/common

[Jonathan Stone <jonathan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    src
Committed By:   jonathan
Date:           Wed Mar  8 03:55:31 UTC 2006

Modified Files:
        src/sys/compat/linux/common: linux_sysctl.c

Log Message:
Rework Linux sysctl()-emulation, so that on amd64, we return the same
Linux kernel-version as on i386 and ppc (currently 2.4.18), and a date
in Feb 2002.

On all other NetBSD platforms we return a Linux-kernel version of
2.0.38 and a date sometime in 2000, which (AFAIK) predates the
existence of amd64, and therefore predates Linux support for amd64.

To me, it makes much more sense to return the same Linux-kernel-version
and date for both 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86.

Empirically (and not least), this change also allows SuSE 10 amd64
binaries to run under our Linux amd64 binary emulation (both static
and dynamic-linked, given suitable setup) , which they didn't when we
reported a Linux/x86_64 kernel version of 2.0.38.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -r1.18 -r1.19 src/sys/compat/linux/common/linux_sysctl.c

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.