Hack to sysctl kern.osreldate, for ports cluster

[Craig Rodrigues]

Hi,


On http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ it states
that sysctl should not be used to determine the
version of FreeBSD, and that uname(1) or the OSVERSION
variable should be used instead.

While a valid thing to do, this is another detail
for port maintainers to keep track of.


What do you think of this hack to sysctl,
which cats /usr/include/sys/param.h to get the
value of kern.osreldate, instead of going to
the true kernel sysctl variable?


 






--- sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c.orig	Sat Jan  8 01:34:41 2005
+++ sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c	Sat Jan  8 01:57:13 2005
@@ -568,8 +568,14 @@
 					printf("%d", *(int *)p);
 				else
 					printf("%d.%dC", (*(int *)p - 2732) / 10, (*(int *)p - 2732) % 10);
-			} else
-				printf(hflag ? "%'d" : "%d", *(int *)p);
+			} else {
+#ifdef PORTS_HACK
+				if (strcmp("kern.osreldate", name ) == 0) {
+					system("awk '/^#define __FreeBSD_version/ { print $3 }' /usr/include/sys/param.h");
+				} else
+#endif /* PORTS_HACK */
+					printf(hflag ? "%'d" : "%d", *(int *)p);
+			}
 			val = " ";
 			len -= sizeof(int);
 			p += sizeof(int);
-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
rodrigc at crodrigues.org