Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:35:27 -0400 From: Jim Bloom <bloom@acm.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patchkits: Was :Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object modulecompatibility Message-ID: <390655EF.312D5248@acm.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004251457020.24877-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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
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