Improving the Identication of Linux Distributions when Dumping

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Matthias,

What is the purpose of this identification?

-Dmitry

On 2011-04-20 13:51, Matthias Klose wrote:
> No, that would be completely wrong. /proc/version tells you something
> about the running kernel, not about the distribution.
>
> On 04/20/2011 11:34 AM, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
>> Matthias,
>>
>> Can't we just read /proc/version ?
>>
>> e.g.:
>>
>> Linux version 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.3.0
>> 20080428 (Red
>> Hat 4.3.0-8) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:06:21 EDT 2008
>>
>> Linux version 2.6.38.2 (root at yoda) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.0,
>> pie-10.1.5) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 16 00:19:00 MSD 20
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2011-04-19 19:25, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>> plus the format for the /etc/lsb-release file is not part of the lsb
>>> spec. A proposal to either define an API to this information, or to
>>> document the format of this file didn't find much enthusiasm on the LSB
>>> ML. So I would like to stay with the current approch, and read the file
>>> if available.
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>
>>
>


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