Re: [PATCH] Use uname not sysctl to get the kernel revision

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Thu Jul 13 2006 - 11:19:47 EST


"Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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