The current implementation has been found not to work across all distros.

The proposed implementation relies on 'sed' to both output the string
'Linux C Library' as well as to open '/proc/self/maps' without having
to use output redirection.

Tested on:
Gentoo Linux
Debian 6.0.10
Oracle Linux Server release 7.1
Arch Linux
openSuSE 13.2


Signed-off-by: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
---
--- linux/scripts/ver_linux.orig    2015-10-03 13:41:57.118790241 +0300
+++ linux/scripts/ver_linux    2015-10-03 13:56:30.159725920 +0300
@@ -59,8 +59,12 @@
 showmount --version 2>&1 | grep nfs-utils | awk \
 'NR==1{print "nfs-utils             ", $NF}'

-echo -n "Linux C Library        "
-sed -n -e '/^.*\/libc-\([^/]*\)\.so$/{s//\1/;p;q}' < /proc/self/maps
+test -r /proc/self/maps &&
+sed '
+    /.*libc-\(.*\)\.so$/!d
+    s//Linux C Library\t\t\1/
+    q
+' /proc/self/maps

 ldd -v > /dev/null 2>&1 && ldd -v || ldd --version |head -n 1 | awk \
 'NR==1{print "Dynamic linker (ldd)  ", $NF}'