uname -r: release level

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 23:25:54 -0800, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just setup my freebsd machine and performed a "freebsd-update fetch
> install" which leads me to believe I am now running 9.2-RELEASE-p2.
> Of course I wanted to see for myself using "uname -r" which reports my
> "release level".
> 
> "uname -r" is reporting 9.2-RELEASE which is not quite what I was
> expecting (I was expecting a p2 suffix).

That's a very assumptive expectation. :-)



> That doesn't interest me too
> much, but this does:
> 
> By what mechanism does "uname -r" determine my "release level"?

The information is obtained from the running kernel. If an
update (towards a higher patchlevel) did not involve a _kernel_
update, this particular information will NOT change.



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