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Re: [PATCH] Use uname not sysctl to get the kernel revision
- From: ebiederm at xmission dot com (Eric W. Biederman)
- To: "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan at gmail dot com>
- Cc: ak at suse dot de, tytso at mit dot edu, drepper at redhat dot com, arjan at infradead dot org, rdunlap at xenotime dot net, akpm at osdl dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:20:24 -0600
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use uname not sysctl to get the kernel revision
- References: <787b0d920607122200m4785f7ddmddf40c079a7460cb@mail.gmail.com>
"Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@gmail.com> writes:
> Normal sysctl works very well for FreeBSD. I'm jealous.
> They also have a few related calls that are very nice.
Of course as I recall the BSDs change reserve the right
to change all of their magic numbers periodically.
Eric