what is the best way to determine system OS?
Philippe C. Martin
philippe at philippecmartin.com
Mon Apr 25 09:51:36 EDT 2005
How about popen of 'uname -r' ?
Regards,
Philippe
googleboy wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I am writing a little app tha tI would like to make cross-platform
> (debian, RH, Fedora, Solaris, AIX, etc)
>
> Originally I decided to check what uname returned, as I didn't think it
> mattered beyond the detail of Linux or SunOS etc.
>
> Recently I have learned that FC3 breaks my script, so I need to be
> able to determine not simply "Linux" but to know exactly what unix the
> script is being run on.
>
> What is the best way to determine this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> googleboy
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