From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] platform detection at run-time
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:48:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701906056@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701906051@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:35:43 -0500, Nathan Straz <nstraz@sgi.com> said:
Nathan> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:18:51PM -0400,
Nathan> Sane_Purushottam@emc.com wrote:
>> What is the preferred method to determine the platform at run
>> time ?? Are these values likely to change (after I change my code
>> to handle this) ????
Nathan> I had to do the same thing for an application and I ended up
Nathan> forking off a process to run the uname command.
That doesn't work. On a properly configured machine,
execve("/bin/uname") will return i686 when execute from an x86
process.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-25 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-25 18:18 [Linux-ia64] platform detection at run-time Sane_Purushottam
2002-09-25 18:22 ` Don Dugger
2002-09-25 18:35 ` Nathan Straz
2002-09-25 18:46 ` David Mosberger
2002-09-25 18:48 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2002-09-25 18:57 ` Nathan Straz
2002-09-25 19:00 ` Joe Griffin
2002-09-25 19:05 ` David Mosberger
2002-09-25 19:28 ` Van Maren, Kevin
2002-09-25 19:33 ` Sane_Purushottam
2002-09-25 19:40 ` Wichmann, Mats D
2002-09-25 19:48 ` David Mosberger
2002-09-25 20:45 ` Grant Grundler
2002-09-25 21:07 ` Don Dugger
2002-09-25 21:25 ` Sane_Purushottam
2002-09-25 23:29 ` David Mosberger
2002-09-26 4:32 ` Don Dugger
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