Re: ver_linux script

From: Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 16:08:20 EST

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Ville Herva wrote:

>> > Perhaps "uname -a" in linux_ver script should changed to
>> > "cat /proc/version"?
>>
>> Or maybe uname should be changed to include the compiler?
>>
>> Just a thought
>
>Sounds good unless there are some kind of unix standard issues on what
>uname should return.

Standards or not, many scripts use awk/sed/perl to grab columns
of output from uname. Change the order of the columns, or number
of them, and you break many userland scripts. 

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