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Okay- off the top of my head while I'm out the door for a week
in Ohio:


A) Create a new file, sys/osversion.h. Have it contain:

#define	FreeBSD_OS_MAJOR	N	# N is 1..N
#define	FreeBSD_OS_MINOR	M	# M is 1..M
#define	FreeBSD_OS_MICRO	K	# K is 1..M

#define	FreeBSD_OS_Version	\		
	(FreeBSD_OS_MAJOR<<16|FreeBSD_OS_Minor<<8|FreeBSD_OS_Micro)

A')	Have a FreeBSD_OS_NANO if you'd like... you get the idea.

B) Include this from sys/param.h, protected by _KERNEL. Or, you
pick how it gets into all kernel files.

C) Integrate this into 3.0 && 2.2.X. With the approprate settings.

D) Only FreeBSD release engineering can update and change this file.

E) Document this in a section 9 (is thers such in FreeBSD_ I have
all my FreeBSD machines down 'coz I'm, like, out the door for a
week) so that developers may depend upon this.


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So- is this stupid? What have I missed? I'm sorry if I didn't
get something, but it seems to be something really useful to
have, and, yes, I've claimed that this should work. If not, how
come?