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Article #27Re: How would a script recognize Linux?
From: Daniel Barlow
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 1995 18:16
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 1995 18:16
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In article <cmanD4w5uz.Hxw@netcom.com>, cman@netcom.com (cman) writes: >With the kernels getting larger and larger, I don't think that you will >find many /mvlinux's. Or /vmlinux's, which is probably what you meant to say :-) In fact, it's no longer possible on the 386 version to boot from an uncompressed kernel image, at least without hacking the build process. > I use /vmlinuz, indicating a compressed kernal >image. I use /boot/zImage, and nothing so far has ever stopped working for me. This idea of guessing linux by looking at the files in the root dir seems a bit silly --- some people using umsdos probably don't even *have* a kernel on their linux partition. > uname() conforms to SVID, AT&T, POSIX, X/OPEN, and even SunOS >4.1.3 returns SunOS. SCO is somewhere in neverneverland. uname() is the way to go. Anyone calling their SCO box `Linux' probably deserves to lose ... Daniel -- xuuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk // Daniel Barlow // daniel.barlow@sjc.ox.ac.uk ``Our single posting of 6,000 was a drop in a huge bucket'' -- Canter & Siegel, to the Tennessee Bar
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