, John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/04/1999 13:23:01
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:11:53PM -0800, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, John Kohl wrote:
>
> > Why not just dump the separation into variables completely, and just put
> > the @(#) header in the version string directly?
>
> That would cause the output of `uname -v' to be prefixed with @(#).
No problem. It is _our_ kernel. We can change the kernel to return
version+4 whenever CTL_KERN,KERN_VERSION is asked for.
-is