How does /usr/bin/uname work in plain english?

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 10:13 PM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14/01/2021 04:46, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 8:22 PM bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> >
> >> … uname -KU reports
> >> 1300135 1300134
> >> …
> > __FreeBSD_version is defined in sys/param.h. For -U, uname prints that
> > value. For -K, it asks the kernel for this value to print.
> >
> > MMmmnnn where MM is the major version, mm is minor, and nnn is
> incremental
> > when the APIs change, approximately weekly.
> >
> > Warner
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>  From the example above – with the inferior number – should I guess that
> Bob has not (yet) performed the installworld part of a FreeBSD-CURRENT
> system update routine?
>
> (Am I confused?)
>

He has a newer kernel than userland... however that came to be...

Warner

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