On 2020-06-28, Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Out of curiosity: > > ~$ uname -r > 6.6 > ~$ uname -v > GENERIC.MP#0 > ~$ sysctl kern.osversion > kern.osversion=GENERIC.MP#0 > > This was GENERIC.MP#7 before I ran syspatch and rebooted. > > I can't find a reference to this notation. I thought it could have > been the patch version number, but it's obviously not so. Looking on: > https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=index&fts=OpenBSD > > it appears machines running -current have a higher #number. >
It is the number of kernel builds that were done in same directory. Sometimes this is wiped between builds (if build options changed etc, or some other cases), other times it is just rebuilt in the same dir so you can't draw much meaning from the value.
