PERFORCE change 113090 for review

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 18 January 2007 09:59, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net> 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.
> 
> 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 at freebsd.org" than as "root at localhost".

You could parse this out of 'version' the way they are parsing out the
build date.

-- 
John Baldwin