Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 11:53:22 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf newvers.sh src/sys/sys sysctl.h src/usr.bin/uname uname.1 uname.c Message-ID: <17497.1055152402@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Jun 2003 02:38:20 PDT." <200306090938.h599cKFZ059077@repoman.freebsd.org>
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In message <200306090938.h599cKFZ059077@repoman.freebsd.org>, Juli Mallett writ es: >jmallett 2003/06/09 02:38:20 PDT > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > sys/conf newvers.sh > sys/sys sysctl.h > usr.bin/uname uname.1 uname.c > Log: > Make kernel identification (`ident' in the config(8) driver) available to > userland, and the kernel. In the kernel by way of the 'ident[]' variable > akin to all the other stuff generated by newvers.sh. In userland it is > available to sysctl consumers via KERN_IDENT or 'kern.ident'. It is exported > by uname(1) by the -i flag. Please remove the KERN_IDENT definition and use OID_AUTO. We should not add more hardcoded OID's without a very good reason, and this isn't one. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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