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From: ced@apollo.hp.com (Carl Davidson)
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Subject: Re: how does "bldt" get its information
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Date: 25 Jun 91 13:37:54 GMT
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From article <1991Jun25.060026.24045@wam.umd.edu>, by dododge@wam.umd.edu (David O. Dodge):
> I've been wondering about this for quite some time, and some small
> experimentation hasn't revealed too much:
> 
> Exactly how does the bldt program get the information to display the
> kernal build version/date? 
> says:
> 

This is yet another service of the "asknode" subsystem. The build 
information is stored in a kernel structure and encoded into a string 
each time the routine is called.

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