current-users: Re: Why commands in the source tree don't have version?

Subject: Re: Why commands in the source tree don't have version?
To: None <cinnion@infinet.com>
From: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 02/14/2001 10:56:05

> Don't take me the wrong way, but..."Why not?" and "How so??".  If
> people follow the existing customs and put RCS ID strings in each file
> (as we appear to be doing), you can tell all you really need to know
> about any executable just by using the ident command.  Indeed, it gets

Any executable?
Hmm, am I missing anything?

  % uname -a
  NetBSD widegw.soum.co.jp 1.4X NetBSD 1.4X (WIDEGW) #6: Fri Nov 10 15:21:10 JST 2000     root@widegw.soum.co.jp:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/WIDEGW i386
  % ident /usr/bin/ident
  /usr/bin/ident:
       $NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.9 1999/11/02 10:07:12 lukem Exp $

Masao

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Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>