From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 25 19:37: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.128.1.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D03337B77C; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:37:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bloom@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (reyim.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.251.241]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA29934; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:35:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <390655EF.312D5248@acm.org> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:35:27 -0400 From: Jim Bloom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-MOENE (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patchkits: Was :Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object modulecompatibility References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The RCS info stored in the binaries is insufficient for this purpose. There is no record of the versions of all included files. Changes to constants and/or macros would not be identifiable. Jim Bloom bloom@acm.org Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > > > The only way something like this is feasible is if the binaries > > themselves contain information about what version they are. In other > > words some sort of a header in the binary which contains the RCS version > > number the binary was compiled from so that whatever method you were > > You've never run ident(1), right? :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message