Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:26:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906251025210.38018-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199906250701.AAA21253@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 23:41:34 -0700 (PDT) > Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote: > > > More generally a system unique identifier available early (pre mountroot) > > could be useful for a number of things. Why're you asking? > > The intended usage: > > (1) Could influence where it is stored. Yes. > > (2) Might be utterly useless (e.g. for software licensing, > especially when you have the source for the OS, and > can thus make it anything you want with a simple > kernel hack...) I'm not really concerned about this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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