uname output ?

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On 19 Aug 2002, at 2:21pm, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
> Ok, how about /proc/version?

  That just appears to be the union of the information contained in "uname
-a" and "gcc -v".  In particular, it does not actually give the distribution
anywhere.  I suppose you could maintain a table which mapped compiler
releases to distribution releases, but that strikes me as being even uglier
than the /etc/*-{release,version} hacks.  And who is to say the same
compiler won't get used for two different {distributions, releases}?

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