On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:45:21PM +0100, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> Just quoting the build date from /etc/release is worse for identifying
> the system, because it does not indicate which branch the code was
> built from, and also not which date the source tree it was built from
> was last updated, though one could perhaps guess that the build date
> and the update date was fairly close.

so what's the best way to solve the problem of determining which version
of userland you're running?  run ident on libc?  assume sys/param.h was
updated with the rest of userland?

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