> Hey, Lawson,
>
> I think that this looks like the right answer - I am going to try it right
> now. But this raises another question for me. Where does 'uname' get it's
> information from? It's probably obvious so apologies in advance if I'm being a
> bit dense :^)
>
uname either makes a kernel call to find out this information, or looks
in /proc/sys/kernel, which has a bunch of files with this kind of info.
proc is a filesystem held in memory that the kernel sets up on boot and
mantains while the system is running
hope this answers your question
greg
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