Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-06-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/31/17 10:30 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: On May 31, 2017, at 13:01, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 05/31/17 09:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: The alternative would be a large times analog of large file support; why that wasn't done when 64-bit began, I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-31 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> On May 31, 2017, at 13:01, Alan Coopersmith > wrote: > > On 05/31/17 09:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> The alternative would be a large times analog of large file support; why >> that wasn't done when 64-bit began, I don't understand. :-) > > It was

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/31/17 09:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: The alternative would be a large times analog of large file support; why that wasn't done when 64-bit began, I don't understand. :-) It was considered at Sun in the late 90's but discarded as going full LP64 already provided a solution without

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-31 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> On May 31, 2017, at 12:32, Alan Coopersmith > wrote: > > On 05/31/17 09:19 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> Aside from executables that reference timestamps (given that a signed >> twos-complement will overflow after Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 GMT), and for >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/31/17 09:19 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Aside from executables that reference timestamps (given that a signed twos-complement will overflow after Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 GMT), and for programs that will never need to manipulate files larger than 2GiB-1 (unless they use large file

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-31 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> On May 26, 2017, at 12:01, Alan Coopersmith > wrote: > > On 05/26/17 04:26 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Jonathan Adams writes: >> >>> Much better than the Linux "file 'which file'" (with back ticks) ... >>> >> >> sudo file `which file`

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith writes: > On 05/26/17 11:34 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Alan Coopersmith writes: >> >>> For the one I work on (not OI, but "Big Red"), we've been making >>> this conversion across 5+ years now, and are >90% done in our

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/26/17 11:34 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Alan Coopersmith writes: For the one I work on (not OI, but "Big Red"), we've been making this conversion across 5+ years now, and are >90% done in our development trunk, though much less done in what's been released so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith writes: > For the one I work on (not OI, but "Big Red"), we've been making > this conversion across 5+ years now, and are >90% done in our > development trunk, though much less done in what's been released so > far. I've written far more about the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Jonathan Adams
> > > Jonathan Adams writes: > > > Much better than the Linux "file 'which file'" (with back ticks) ... > > > > > sudo file `which file` > /usr/bin/file: ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1, dynamically > linked, not stripped, no debugging information available > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/26/17 04:26 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Jonathan Adams writes: Much better than the Linux "file 'which file'" (with back ticks) ... sudo file `which file` /usr/bin/file: ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped, no debugging

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst
On 05/25/17 23:10, Harry Putnam wrote: How can quickly tell what bit my Hipster 2017.04 is? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss I remember this from

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Nikola M
On 05/25/17 11:18 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 05/25/17 02:13 PM, Will Brokenbourgh wrote: >> On 05/25/17 14:10, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> How can quickly tell what bit my Hipster 2017.04 is? >> >> Have you tried: >> >> uname -a > > The Solaris/openSolaris/illumos kernel doesn't change any of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith writes: > On 05/25/17 02:10 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> How can quickly tell what bit my Hipster 2017.04 is? > > "isainfo -kv" will tell you which kernel is running. > And so it does... thanks: sudo isainfo -kv 64-bit amd64 kernel modules ---

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-25 Thread Jonathan Adams
Much better than the Linux "file 'which file'" (with back ticks) ... On 25 May 2017 22:21, "jason matthews" wrote: > > > On 5/25/17 2:17 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> "isainfo -kv" will tell you which kernel is running. >> > > winner winner chicken dinner. > > isainfo is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-25 Thread jason matthews
On 5/25/17 2:17 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: "isainfo -kv" will tell you which kernel is running. winner winner chicken dinner. isainfo is the most elegant way i know of. j. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/25/17 02:13 PM, Will Brokenbourgh wrote: On 05/25/17 14:10, Harry Putnam wrote: How can quickly tell what bit my Hipster 2017.04 is? Have you tried: uname -a The Solaris/openSolaris/illumos kernel doesn't change any of the values in uname between 32 & 64-bit kernels, much to the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/25/17 02:10 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: How can quickly tell what bit my Hipster 2017.04 is? "isainfo -kv" will tell you which kernel is running. -alan- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-25 Thread Will Brokenbourgh
On 05/25/17 14:10, Harry Putnam wrote: How can quickly tell what bit my Hipster 2017.04 is? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss Have you tried: uname