Thoughts on std.system.OS

[Marco Leise]

Am 13.08.2011, 16:00 Uhr, schrieb Marco Leise <Marco.Leise at gmx.de>:

> Am 13.08.2011, 13:12 Uhr, schrieb Vladimir Panteleev  
> <vladimir at thecybershadow.net>:
>
>> Really? I've *never* seen the `uname -a` shell command (which I assume  
>> is just a thin syscall wrapper) print out the distro name.
>
> # uname -r
> 2.6.39-gentoo-r3
>
> It seems to work, and return the Kernel package version more or less. So  
> here it is the Gentoo package in the 3rd revision.
>
> Files to look for distributions / versions:
> 1) /etc/*-release
> 2) /etc/slackware-version
> 3) /proc/version
>
> The release file seems to have become a pseudo standard. /proc/version  
> gives the kernel version which I find more interesting than the  
> distribution version. Both have their use of course. Some versions of  
> distributions may come with a configuration that is incompatible to your  
> program, so a way to figure that out would help. Also there are subtle  
> differences for example in how the default Java installation is found,  
> how the filesystem is laid out etc.

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