Re: How would a script recognize Linux?

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From: cman
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 1995 01:08

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On 2 Mar 1995 14:19:21 -0500, bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) wrote:
: This is why I suggested looking for /vmlinux first, it at least
: won't give you misleading information. I really *can* believe that
: someone who was using SCO because they had to would name their
: machine 'linux' and break the uname method. Of course I know people
: running Linux who wish they had some of the SCO features, too, so
: that cuts both ways.

With the kernels getting larger and larger, I don't think that you will 
find many /mvlinux's.  I use /vmlinuz, indicating a compressed kernal 
image.  uname() conforms to SVID, AT&T, POSIX, X/OPEN, and even SunOS 
4.1.3 returns SunOS.  SCO is somewhere in neverneverland.

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