Re: ver_linux script

From: Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 19:21:23 EST


        Hello Riley & Tim,

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Tim.
> >>> Alan,Tim: Enclosed is a version that fixes both this alias
> >>> problem and other prospective ones without destroying the
> >>> users' environment or spawning a subshell. Can it be used?
> >> [mega snippage]
> > Um, I'm just curious, what happened to the patch that
> > started this whole snowball? i.e. the proc/version vs.
> > uname change.
> I've no idea. I'm not even sure of the reasoning behind the
> proposal to make that change...
        To Include in the output the Version of GCC used to build
        the presently running kernel . Presumably it would be the
        kernel that someone is trying to report a problem about .
                Hth, JimL
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