Re: amd64, how do I know?

[Oleg Gritsinevich <olegg@ukrpack.net>]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 07:25:41AM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/28/05, Klaus Pieper <kfpieper@web.de> wrote:
> 
>     > uname -r
>     >
>     harpo:~# uname  -m
>     i686
>     kp@groucho64:~$ uname  -m
>     x86_64
> 
	I can be totally wrong, but AFAIK you can have 64-bit kernel and
32-bit userspace. In this case `uname -m` will return x86_64. So IMHO
better way to determine is your system "really" 64-bit is to check
output of:

$ file /bin/date

In 32-bit system it will return something like:
/bin/date: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV)...
In 64-bit something like:
/bin/date: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV)...

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With best regards, Oleg Gritsinevich