cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d hostid

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Mon May 21 19:58:05 UTC 2007


Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 'smbios.system.uuid' is exported from loader, not from kernel.  And it
> already checks two things, i.e., all zero's and all 0xff's, which are
> the most common and 'useless' UUIDs.  If the SMBIOS has one of these,
> it is not set at all.

Is it safe to assume that smbios.system.uuid returns a string of the
correct form (the correct amount of hex digits with hyphens in the right
places) which is neither all-bits-zero nor all-bits-one?  In that case,
there is no need to check anything in etc/rc.d/hostid.

DES
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