Re: how to tell i386 from x86-64 kernel

[Pavel Machek]

On Thu 2008-01-31 16:46:57, Ray Lee wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2008 4:42 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Quiz: on a booted system, how do you tell 32bit from 64bit kernel?
> 
> Uhm, is this a trick question? What's wrong with uname(2)?

No, it is a tricky question. You are right, uname -a tells me. Sorry.

Still, it would be nice to print it as a first message of dmesg, so
that it automatically gets included with problem reports... on
easy-to-see place.

								Pavel

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