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Date:      Fri, 4 Jan 2002 08:48:47 -0500
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        "J.S." <johann@broadpark.no>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What is this comment?
Message-ID:  <20020104084847.A5650@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020104144601.3605df11.johann@broadpark.no>; from johann@broadpark.no on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:46:01PM %2B0100
References:  <20020104144601.3605df11.johann@broadpark.no>

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It's a revision number, as used by CVS.

If you're ever really deep in debugging a system problem, and some
hacker asks you for the revision number, this is it.

You can get more detail from ident(1).

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:46:01PM +0100, J.S. wrote:
> I've always wondered what the following line is, what purpose it serves
> and how it is made.
> 
> # $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc,v 1.212.2.34 2001/08/01 19:59:05 obrien Exp $
> 
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