Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!applix!jim
From: jim@applix.com (Jim Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix upgrade horror story
Summary: how kernel serialization works
Message-ID: <1065@applix.com>
Date: 25 Jul 90 05:44:25 GMT
References: <1990Jul19.101125.245@bbt.se> <8227@scorn.sco.COM> <1990Jul21.103829.12316@bbt.se>
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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In article <1990Jul21.103829.12316@bbt.se>, pgd@bbt.se (P.Garbha) writes:
> It is also nice to hear that the serial number is not written to the
> file system. (Although i still wonder how it enters into the kernel
> after a re-link.)

Simple - one of the kernel libraries, /usr/sys/mdep/libmdep.a gets
"branded" when you install the LINK kit, and so the serialization
gets linked into the kernel on every kernel build...
Do a "grep '#ser' /etc/perms/*" to see other things that get
serialized.
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Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
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