From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 10 12:44:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 664) id 9ADB937B405; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:44:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:44:07 -0700 From: David O'Brien To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Wilko Bulte , Alexander Langer , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can we please remove "green@FreeBSD.org" from the version string? Message-ID: <20010810124407.A878@hub.freebsd.org> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <200108101800.f7AI0Xd83332@green.bikeshed.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108101800.f7AI0Xd83332@green.bikeshed.org>; from green@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:00:32PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:00:32PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > None of those actually report their version numbers over the network and > expect whatever is reading those version numbers to attempt to decipher them > and do the right thing according to what it is. Brian, you've been asked nicely. You've heard others agree that we don't do this practice in FreeBSD. Must we take this to Core? > > This the "FreeBSD" added to the version string. > > How does that differentiate itself from just being "OpenSSH on FreeBSD"? It does. > It's common for a network application to report part of the uname() in the > version string, and that's not what this is... Such as? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message