From owner-p4-projects@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 18 15:26:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: p4-projects@freebsd.org Delivered-To: p4-projects@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id E851716A47E; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:26:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: perforce@freebsd.org Delivered-To: perforce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ACE716A415; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:26:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2231513C457; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:26:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (zion.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0IFQKdJ063376; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:26:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: "Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:26:08 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200701180243.l0I2hcLn035071@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070118142041.uio1r7xxesw4g0oo@webmail.leidinger.net> <86tzyo2xex.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <86tzyo2xex.fsf@dwp.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701181026.08997.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.1]); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:26:21 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.3/2462/Thu Jan 18 05:07:46 2007 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: Alexander Leidinger , Divacky Roman , Perforce Change Reviews , Jung-uk Kim Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 113090 for review X-BeenThere: p4-projects@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: p4 projects tree changes List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:26:31 -0000 On Thursday 18 January 2007 09:59, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Alexander Leidinger writes: > > Dag-Erling wrote this (linprocfs). And so far I passed each linprocfs > > change past him (in some way). If des hands over the maintainership (I > > hope he doesn't but reviews patches instead) of linprocfs to > > emulation@, it can be changed. Unless this happens I suggest to forget > > this idea. >=20 > I have to wonder what the purpose of the change is... the version > string has no significance for application compatibility. It is in a > way my signature on the code, and I'd very much appreciate if you > could just leave the current implementation alone. I agree. > The thing that looks like an email address isn't, by the way. It's > supposed to be the login name of the person that built the kernel and > the host name of the machine on which it was built. It isn't easily > available at run time, and it seemed more appropriate to hardcode it > as "des@freebsd.org" than as "root@localhost". You could parse this out of 'version' the way they are parsing out the build date. =2D-=20 John Baldwin