Xenix upgrade horror story

[Jim Morton]

In article <1990Jul21.103829.12316 at bbt.se>, pgd at bbt.se (P.Garbha) writes:
> It is also nice to hear that the serial number is not written to the
> file system. (Although i still wonder how it enters into the kernel
> after a re-link.)

Simple - one of the kernel libraries, /usr/sys/mdep/libmdep.a gets
"branded" when you install the LINK kit, and so the serialization
gets linked into the kernel on every kernel build...
Do a "grep '#ser' /etc/perms/*" to see other things that get
serialized.
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Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
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