Re: [OpenAFS-devel] DRAFT: New sysname standard

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, David Thompson wrote:

> >Then you start assuming that just because someone runs redhat they are
> >running redhat's kernel. 
> 
> Not necessarily.  But you would be assuming that the environment
> around that kernel looks like a Red Hat version 'n' or debian version
> 'q'.  I think that's the right assumption.
> 
> You're always going to have to build the new kernel load module.  But
> no one uses @sys to determine things related to the kernel (??).  The
> problem we're trying to solve is the userland problem.

That was my argument, but there are people who expect @sys values to solve
both problems for them.

-D


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