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by pilif
4133 days ago
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It's a feature that makes the kernel to lie to old userspace programs that insist on only supporting Linux 2.6. By calling personality(2) with PER_LINUX | UNAME26, uname(2) will from then on pretend that you're actually running linux 2.6.something. This is meant as a workaround for software you don't have the source code to and which does some crazy checks for the version, assuming it doesn't support anything but 2.6. Here's the source of a little wrapper utility you can use to invoke such broken software with: http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/un... |
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