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Date:      Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:15:55 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.org, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9
Message-ID:  <20010916141555.A22230@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3BA4194B.2A4AB339@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 08:15:23PM -0700
References:  <20010915121926.A71700@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010916054620.T29957-100000@delplex.bde.org> <20010915165402.A84034@dragon.nuxi.com> <3BA4194B.2A4AB339@elischer.org>

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On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 08:15:23PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:

> can someone explain to me what on earth all this is about?
> don't "get" what all this__FBSDID() stuff is trying to achieve..

It causes the $FreeBSD$ ident string to be embedded in the binary for
identification purposes.  They can be compiled/stripped out if desired.

Kris

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