detecting kernel version via API or system call

[Cameron Simpson]

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On 10:57 30 Jun 2004, Michelangelo Calatino <michelangelo.calatino at adstorino.it> wrote:
| From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>
| > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 16:42, Michelangelo Calatino wrote:
| > > but, perhaps there is shorter way ?
| > reading /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease will give you the same info.  
| I guess this is available also on other distributions,  [SUSE,DEBIAN]
| is it ?

On Linux, yes.
On UNIX in general see "man 3 sysconf" for a general interface for
this kind of information.
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