Jim Stapleton wrote:
Basically, I have an application that doesn't want to run in FreeBSD,
though it may still run given the compatability layer. I was wondering
if there was some way to make the OS respond when it ran the
application, that it was linux and not BSD.
i.e.
========================================
$ ./some_app
Sorry, we only deal with Linux people, go away!
$ sysctl.pretend.register /home/me/some_app "generic-i386-linux"
$ ./some_app
Hello world!
========================================
That really rather depends on *how* the app is asking. If you can tell
us that, we can almost certainly tell you how to fool it.
Of course, if you have the source code, it should be easy as you can
just comment out the test and recompile.
Mind you, if the app is as short-sighted and bloody-minded as its
developers, maybe you should just look for an alternative.
--Alex
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