Is there any way to know if userland is patched?

[Peter C. Lai]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:52:59PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> In the end, what we want is for a user to type `uname -r' and to see
> what patch level is running.  Anything more complicated (checking RCS
> Ids and such) just gets in the way, I think.

That is how many other major unix suppliers do it (sun/solaris, and sgi/irix).

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Peter C. Lai
University of Connecticut
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
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