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From: cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: PLEA across the board.
Date: 20 Apr 93 11:34:22
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Apr20113422@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <jmonroyC5rz7x.LA1@netcom.com> <1993Apr20.102524.4417@hemlock.cray.com>
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In-reply-to: overby@cray.com's message of 20 Apr 93 10:25:24 CDT
In article <1993Apr20.102524.4417@hemlock.cray.com> overby@cray.com (Glen Overby) writes:
>(2) define a "static" character array in each source file that
>contains the source control system's version identification. This
>allows anyone with read-access to the executable to find the version
>numbers of _all_ source modules making up the executable using
we're going to be using rcsid strings for NetBSD...
the only problem is, if you "cvs export" a tree,
the dollar signs get stripped off the rcs strings,
(for good reason), and that's what ident looks for...
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass