On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 08:45:42PM +0000, Riley Williams wrote:
Hi Riley
> > I don't know about this, but if it's true then you're right,
> > using /bin/ls might be the Wrong Thing[tm] to do.
>
> That's what the comment at the top of the original version
> indicates as being the reason for the path specified therein, and
> notes that if a different path is used on that systemn, then the
> path in question should be echoed there.
I can live with that reasoning :)
> I've just checked, and it doesn't work for me either now, yet
> it's the one I developed when RedHat 5.2 was current, and it
> clearly worked then. Yours truly is clearly puzzled as to what
> is going on there !!!
I don't know what the issue there is either. Maybe bash's
behaviour has changed since then.
> I have now developed one that actually works, but it does so by
> changing the mode of the ver_linux script to 755 rather than the
> 644 that it comes with, then just running it. I know my original
> version avoided that and worked, but I've no idea why the one I
> have stored as being the version in question doesn't...
Hmph. Dunno.
> > Well, /proc/version provides most of the same information
> > that uname -a provides. The only things missing are the
> > machine type and processor type.
>
> I must have been asleep when I made that comment, sorry...
> Please ignore it.
Unless the processor information is actually important. I think
we might not want to omit that from the information.
If that's the case we can do a "uname -mp" as well as
"cat /proc/version"
> >> It could also prevent the script from producing the
> >> correct answers in some cases, so I would suggest
> >> basing a replacement on the application of the above
> >> diff to the original version.
>
> > It would?
>
> It COULD - not WOULD - although in that case, I wouldn't expect
> it to. That's the direct implication of the comment at the start
> of the current version.
Oops. I misread your comment.
> [patch]
I think your patch looks pretty good to me. Not that I'm
a Certified Kernel Hacker or anything :)
If there is a need for the processor/machine information from
uname, we can add uname -mp after the cat /proc/version as
I mentioned above.
Of course, if we wanted lots of detail we could cat /proc/cpuinfo :)
Tim
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