svn commit: r348611 - in head/sys: conf kern

Ed Maste emaste at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 4 16:57:14 UTC 2019


On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 10:58, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 13:07 +0000, Ed Maste wrote:
> > Author: emaste
> > Date: Tue Jun  4 13:07:10 2019
> > New Revision: 348611
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/348611
> >
> > Log:
> >   Expose the kernel's build-ID through sysctl
> >
> >   After our migration (of certain architectures) to lld the kernel is built
> >   with a unique build-ID.  Make it available via a sysctl and uname(1) to
> >   allow the user to identify their running kernel.
> >
>
> Won't this impact WITH_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD?

No, if the object is otherwise identical the build-ID will also be identical.

(The linker does support --build-id=uuid which will generate a random
build-id, but we don't (and nobody should) use that.)


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