Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:06:50 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Trober <trober@trober.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: source of uname information Message-ID: <18807.7658.648830.399278@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20090121123826.D19AA140AD@karpathos.uni5.net> References: <20090121123826.D19AA140AD@karpathos.uni5.net>
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Trober <trober@trober.com>: >> Am I correct in believing "uname" gets its information from the >> kern.version sysctl? > > I believe "YES", based on > [1]http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/uname/uname.c > > See "= NATIVE_SYSCTL2_GET(ver= sion, CTL_KERN, KERN_VERSION)", on > source above. > > I hope I've helped. It does. Next question: Can someone explain this: huff@jerusalem>> sysctl kern.version kern.version: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Jan 20 10:40:57 EST 2009 huff@jerusalem.litteratus.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JERUSALEM huff@jerusalem>> uname -a FreeBSD jerusalem.litteratus.org 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Jan 20 10:40:57 EST 2009 huff@jerusalem.litteratus.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JERUSALEM i386 Robert huff
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