detecting kernel version via API or system call

Alexey Fadyushin fab at s-tunnel.com
Wed Jun 30 18:07:31 UTC 2004


I think it should be available on any distribution. The information
files
in /proc/sys/kernel are the features of the Linux kernel itself, not of
particules
distribution. That part of kernel usually is not modified by the
distribution
vendors.

Alexey Fadyushin.
Brainbench MVP for Linux
http://www.brainbench.com

Michelangelo Calatino wrote:
> 
> Thank you, Ed,
> 
> I guess this is available also on other distributions,  [SUSE,DEBIAN]
> is it ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michelangelo
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>
> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:50 AM
> Subject: Re: detecting kernel version via API or system call
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 16:42, Michelangelo Calatino wrote:
> >
> > > but, perhaps there is shorter way ?
> > > Thank you,
> >
> > reading /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease will give you the same info.
> >
> >
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