Re: Conflicting reports re: kernel version

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

JoshNarins@aol.com wrote:
>root ! # grep RELEASE /usr/linux/include/version.h
>#define UTS_RELEASE="2.2.15"

If you mean /usr/include/linux/version.h, then that's simply the version
of the kernel headers against which your copy of libc6 was compiled.
It's nothing to do with what kernel you're actually running.

(Other distributions symlink /usr/include/linux to
/usr/src/linux/include/linux, so that that file will probably point to
whatever kernel you compiled most recently or something. There's often
discussion on the kernel mailing list about why this is a bad idea:
basically, compiling applications against mismatched kernel headers and
libc can produce unstable results.)

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]