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From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: Determining FreeBSD versions
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On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 09:33:17AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>In message <19970701190353.50830@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> David Dawes writes:
>: branch, and as a consequence, 'uname -r' now reports "2.1-STABLE" rather
>
>Hmmm.  Why not report 2.1.x-STABLE?  Where x is incremented whenever a
>release happens.  Then people know that things are newer than 2.1.x or
>2.2.x or whatever.

Agreed.

>I'm not completely sure that parsing osversion.h (or is that
>osreldate.h) is the right answer here.

I've ended up getting imake to look at the kern.osreldate sysctl value
when it can't determine the dot revision from the uname -r output.
At least then both methods are consistent in that they are getting
the version information from the kernel.

David