[cfgeeks] 64 bit Linux

[Shawn McMahon]

On 6/28/07, Kevin P. Inscoe <kevin at inscoe.org> wrote:
> On Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 03:29:00PM -0400, Kevin Korb wrote:
> >  uname -p tells you what the CPU can do not what the OS is actually doing
> >  with it...
>
> Exactly which is why I can't trust that. I am shocked but searching
> kernel.org I find no *reliable* way to determine if the kernel has been
> compiled in 64 bit or not. Just seeing the X86_64 thing is not proof of this.

Wait, it's not?  WTH?