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SubjectRe: how to tell i386 from x86-64 kernel

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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