How to find the vesrion of Red Hat Linux from c++

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Can anyone plz tell me how to find the vesrion of Red Hat Linux from c++ or if there is any fucntion to get the version number.
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Dev

Posted 10-May-12 19:20pm

Devadutta Achary

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merano · Answer 1 · 2012-05-11T13:07:00

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The command uname() should do it.

manpage uname(2)

Posted 11-May-12 13:07pm

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«_Superman_» · Answer 2 · 2012-05-10T19:40:00

Solution 1

You could get this version information from the environment variables.
You can use the getenv() function to the environment variable of you choice.
I'm not sure which variable gives you this information on Red Hat, but you could check that by issuing the env or set commands.

Posted 10-May-12 19:40pm

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