On Mon, Dec 11, Linus Torvalds wrote: > What crud. I'm even slightly inclined to just let SLES9 be broken, just to > let people know how unacceptable it is to look for strings in kernel > binaries. But sadly, I don't think the poor users should be penalized for > some idiotic SLES developers bad taste.
SLES7 or SLES11 is not any different than SLES9 in that respect. Suppose I send you some random vmlinux binary. How do you (you as in linus.sh) know what 'uname -r' is inside this binary? There are surely many many ways to pass that info. Having a string like 'Linux version 2.6.19-g9202f325-dirty' somewhere in the binary is the most reliable one. Dont you agree? Just think about it for a minute. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
