[cfgeeks] 64 bit Linux

Kevin Korb kmk at sanitarium.net
Thu Jun 28 15:43:42 EDT 2007


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Why isn't it?  I only see that on boxes that are running 64bit Linux.
That is what it means.

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On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Kevin P. Inscoe wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:40:20 -0400
> From: Kevin P. Inscoe <kevin at inscoe.org>
> To: Central Florida Geeks <cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org>
> Subject: Re: [cfgeeks] 64 bit Linux
> 
> 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.
>
>
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