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Update the kern.osreldate documentation to document the present format

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used, and refer to <osreldate.h> to get userland date.

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Eivind Eklund 2003-09-01 14:26:33 +00:00
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@ -406,8 +406,23 @@ The maximum number of supplemental groups.
.It Li KERN_NISDOMAINNAME
The name of the current YP/NIS domain.
.It Li KERN_OSRELDATE
The system release date in YYYYMM format
(January 1996 is encoded as 199601).
The kernel release version in the format
.Ar M Ns Ar mm Ns Ar R Ns Ar xx ,
where
.Ar M
is the major version,
.Ar mm
is the two digit minor version,
.Ar R
is 0 if release branch, otherwise 1,
and
.Ar xx
is updated when the available APIs change.
.Pp
The userland release version is available from
.Aq Pa osreldate.h ;
parse this file if you need to get the release version of
the currently installed userland.
.It Li KERN_OSRELEASE
The system release string.
.It Li KERN_OSREV