From: "Daniel P. Zepeda" <daniel@...>
Date: 2003-01-07T12:30:23+09:00
Subject: Re: the operating system release

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:03:07 +0900
zhoujing@comp.nus.edu.sg (TOTO) wrote:

> > If you want to get the version of the OS, under linux (and perhaps other
> > unix) you can call the command "uname".
> > 
> > os_version = `uname -a`
> > 
> > regards
> 
> Yes. I knew this. But my goal is to implement a Unix uname clone. So I
> can't use uname itself to do that.

Well, there is /etc/redhat-release on Redhat and Mandrake systems. Maybe you could check for this file, and maybe there are like files on other distributions like Suse and Debian? 


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