Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:26:08 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: "Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" <des@des.no> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>, Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 113090 for review Message-ID: <200701181026.08997.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <86tzyo2xex.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200701180243.l0I2hcLn035071@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070118142041.uio1r7xxesw4g0oo@webmail.leidinger.net> <86tzyo2xex.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Thursday 18 January 2007 09:59, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> writes: > > Dag-Erling wrote this (linprocfs). And so far I passed each linprocfs > > change past him (in some way). If des hands over the maintainership (I > > hope he doesn't but reviews patches instead) of linprocfs to > > emulation@, it can be changed. Unless this happens I suggest to forget > > this idea. >=20 > I have to wonder what the purpose of the change is... the version > string has no significance for application compatibility. It is in a > way my signature on the code, and I'd very much appreciate if you > could just leave the current implementation alone. I agree. > The thing that looks like an email address isn't, by the way. It's > supposed to be the login name of the person that built the kernel and > the host name of the machine on which it was built. It isn't easily > available at run time, and it seemed more appropriate to hardcode it > as "des@freebsd.org" than as "root@localhost". You could parse this out of 'version' the way they are parsing out the build date. =2D-=20 John Baldwin
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