Messages in this thread | | | From | Ian Stirling <> | Subject | config info/kernel | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:10:14 +0000 (GMT) |
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While initially liking the idea of /proc/config.gz, some thoughts.
A "nice" tool would read /proc/version, combine with clues from /proc/cmdline, parse /etc/lilo.conf or whatever, and then read the end of the zImage. However, this relies on a lot of things having not changed, to be able to find the correct kernel. Worst case, something like find, searching for the string from /proc/version would find it.
To get more useable than this, you either need /proc/config.gz (which has to be live in ram, all the time, otherwise it's of no more use than the userspace solution, or some way of putting the filename in /proc/cmdline, which I don't see a clean way of doing.
/proc/config.gz would be handy, if the kernel had been deleted, or is not available, maybe the system was booted from a floppy, the kernel was re-built, /etc/lilo.conf is not up to date, etc etc
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