32 bit vs. 64 bit kernel

Fraser Campbell fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 21 02:23:07 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 15 November 2006 12:06, Paul Mora wrote:

> Does anyone here know how you can tell if your currently booted kernel
> is a 32- or 64-bit?

Yet another possibility ...

  fraser at somewhere:~$ arch
  x86_64

Of course you could be running 64bit sparc or ppc in which case I don't know 
the values that would be returned ;-)

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