NextStep 3.3 dmesg problem

[r.stricklin]

On Apr 4, 2007, at 7:42 PM, mike ingram wrote:

> on an otherwise perfectly working system, the command    /usr/etc/ 
> dmesg    returns
>
> # dmesg
>
> Apr  4 19:32
> Can't get kernel namelist

It doesn't work. There are tiny pieces of SVR4 and some number of  
pieces of POSIX in NEXTSTEP but neither are especially complete, and  
you shouldn't expect those interfaces to work even though sometimes  
some of it does work "enough". OPENSTEP 4 is noticeably more complete  
in this regard, but still pretty thin on the ground by modern  
standards (it was thin on the ground by most people's standards even  
when OPENSTEP was current).

There is, for example, enough of utsname to write your own 'uname'. I  
had to do this once for some braindead autoconf script.

Generally, though, forget it.

ok
bear