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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 08:15:23PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:

> can someone explain to me what on earth all this is about?
> don't "get" what all this__FBSDID() stuff is trying to achieve..

It causes the $FreeBSD$ ident string to be embedded in the binary for
identification purposes.  They can be compiled/stripped out if desired.

Kris

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