Improving the Identication of Linux Distributions when Dumping

[Matthias Klose]

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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