Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2008 02:37:08 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: how to tell i386 from x86-64 kernel |
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don't strip Ccs, thanks. (and try not to tofu either.)
On Jan 31 2008 17:01, Justin Banks wrote: > >uname -a will tell you, though.
No. uname is generally not a reliable source to tell you the bitness (or more precisely, the arch). It may even happen that you cannot find out at all if access permissions are set 'correctly'. You may find ELF64 files flying around in the filesystem, and while that is a strong indication of a 64-bit kernel being running, it is not a definite Yes.
02:31 ccgmbh:~ > uname -a Linux ccgmbh 2.6.23.10-ccj62-regular #1 SMP 2007/10/26 14:17:15 UTC i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
02:32 ccgmbh:~ > file `which uname` /bin/uname: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
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