From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 5:49: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9834C37B41A for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 05:48:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g04DmlQ05706; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 08:48:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 08:48:47 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: "J.S." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is this comment? Message-ID: <20020104084847.A5650@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020104144601.3605df11.johann@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020104144601.3605df11.johann@broadpark.no>; from johann@broadpark.no on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:46:01PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 $ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message