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Date:      Tue, 4 Jun 2019 10:44:46 -0700
From:      Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r348611 - in head/sys: conf kern
Message-ID:  <13469B81-40A3-4F57-A8D3-FF8172385B5F@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201906041307.x54D7Acf058688@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201906041307.x54D7Acf058688@repo.freebsd.org>

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> On Jun 4, 2019, at 6:07 AM, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> Author: emaste
> Date: Tue Jun  4 13:07:10 2019
> New Revision: 348611
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/348611
>=20
> Log:
>  Expose the kernel's build-ID through sysctl
>=20
>  After our migration (of certain architectures) to lld the kernel is =
built
>  with a unique build-ID.  Make it available via a sysctl and uname(1) =
to
>  allow the user to identify their running kernel.

This is awesome! One minor critique is that I would have mentioned that =
the sysctl is `kern.build_id`.

How is this linked into uname(1) though? I don=E2=80=99t see any =
additional options added to the utility in this commit.

Thank you!
-Enji=



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