Re: Patchkits: Was :Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object modulecompatibility

[Jim Bloom]

The RCS info stored in the binaries is insufficient for this purpose.  There is
no record of the versions of all included files.  Changes to constants and/or
macros would not be identifiable.

Jim Bloom
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
> 
> > The only way something like this is feasible is if the binaries
> > themselves contain information about what version they are.  In other
> > words some sort of a header in the binary which contains the RCS version
> > number the binary was compiled from so that whatever method you were
> 
> You've never run ident(1), right? :)


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