CFR: bridge locking

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at icir.org
Wed Aug 20 12:54:44 PDT 2003


On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:23:42AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Sam Leffler wrote:
> 
> > One other minor change: I moved the printf "BRIDGE 020214 loaded" under 
> > bootverbose.  Can anyone tell me what 020214 means?

yes, it is a timestamp -- just to get an idea on when the code was last
touched.

	cheers
	luigi

> I recently started using bridge(4) functionality and was wondering
> about this too.  Based on the output of "cvs annotate" and "cvs log",
> I concluded that it was a datestamp used by Luigi to keep track of
> which version he was working with (on HEAD, this line was last touched
> in revision 1.45, which was committed on 15 February 2002).
> 
> Bruce.




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