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Date:      Sun, 17 Jun 2001 20:24:54 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include Makefile 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106172008350.99850-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010617080851.E484339E9@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Will Andrews wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 06:20:25PM -0700, Peter Wemm (peter@FreeBSD.org) wrot
>     e:
> > >   Log:
> > >   Revise wording of osreldate.h vs kernel warning to make it clear that it
> > >   is a userland-only header.
> > 
> > I thought we only use sys/param.h to get __FreeBSD_version,
> > including in userland.
> 
> Yes, we do.  But there are some very badly behaved packages out there that
> are still trying to carry the old legacy interface forward.

These seem to be actually the well behaved packages.  __FreeBSD_version
seems to be documented only in /usr/share/examples/FreeBSD_version/,
and only <osreldate.h> is mentioned there.  <osreldate.h> is less evil
than <sys/param.h>.

Bruce


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