On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 12:11:52AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > This is the comment in the FreeBSD kernel, file sys/kern/kern_xxx.c > > /* > * This is the FreeBSD-1.1 compatable uname(2) interface. These > * days it is done in libc as a wrapper around a bunch of sysctl's. > * This must maintain the old 1.1 binary ABI. > */ > > Then if you look at the code corresponding to the syscall, you will see > that the syscall correspond to a call to the corresponding sysctl, but > truncated: > > ... > > name[0] = CTL_KERN; > name[1] = KERN_OSTYPE; > len = sizeof (uap->name->sysname); > mtx_lock(&Giant); > error = userland_sysctl(td, name, 2, uap->name->sysname, &len, > 1, 0, 0, 0); > if (error) > goto done2; > subyte( uap->name->sysname + sizeof(uap->name->sysname) - 1, 0); > > ... > > > So, in short the current implementation in our glibc is the correct one.
Weird. How about disabling SYS_uname macro, then? -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
