kern.ostype - where gets its value?

[Milan Obuch]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 12:47:42 +0000
Daniel Shahaf <danielsh at apache.org> wrote:

> Milan Obuch wrote on Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 13:25:48 +0100:
> > From my experience it looks like this problem is caused by svn not
> > being able to be run on nfs mounted directory, no matter the
> > architecture - today I tried with both server and client running
> > 10.3-STABLE on i386, svn just fails.  
> 
> svn can work over nfs provided that locking is supported.
>

How could I find whether locking is supported/make sure it is?

> > So I think this is root cause for missing svn revision number,
> > buildkernel process somehow uses svn to fetch svn revision number,
> > fails, and then just omits it. If I undestand it right, this
> > information is put into /sys/kern/kern_mib.c file's kern.version
> > sysctl, maybe via some include or some generated .c file is used for
> > it. Could someone point me to the right direction how is this done?
> > I would like to find at least some workaround for that...  
> 
> sys/conf/newvers.sh, grep for 'svnversion'.

Thanks, I knew it is something like that, I found vers.c file just
moment ago, it is probably output of this script...

Regards,
Milan