Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2008 01:59:03 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: how to tell i386 from x86-64 kernel |
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On Jan 31 2008 16:46, Ray Lee wrote: >On Jan 31, 2008 4:42 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> 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)?
# uname -m I won't tell you. # linux32 uname -m i686
Now what? :-)
Well, the answer is simple, a 64-bit kernel will allow you (minus selinux voodoo) to load 64-bit binaries.
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